George Moschonis
Biographic Data
| ID | 5458464 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Moschonis |
| GIVEN NAMES | George |
| FAMILY NAME | Moschonis |
| SIGNATURE | MOSCHONIS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harokopio University of Athens |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3009-6675 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Policy‐Driven Scoping Review of the Regulatory and Operational Framework Addressing Obesity in Children in Need in Greece
Multisystem collaboration and actions are needed to tackle childhood obesity, especially in the most vulnerable. This review aimed to describe the regulatory and operational framework associated with four delivery systems (social protection, food, education and health) for obesity prevention in children in need in Greece, and to synthesise related evidence of effectiveness, implementation, barriers and facilitators. The Joanna Briggs Institute (J…
Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022: A pooled analysis of 3663 population-representative studies with 222 million children, adolescents, and adults
BACKGROUND: Underweight and obesity are associated with adverse health outcomes throughout the life course. We estimated the individual and combined prevalence of underweight or thinness and obesity, and their changes, from 1990 to 2022 for adults and school-aged children and adolescents in 200 countries and territories. METHODS: ). For school-aged children and adolescents, we report thinness (BMI 2 SD above the median). FINDINGS: From 1990 to 20…
Infant BMI trajectories as early risk markers of poor psychosocial health in preadolescence
Infants with BMI growth in the high reference ranges had poorer psychosocial outcomes in preadolescence. Whilst further research is needed to replicate these findings, monitoring early infant growth trajectories may allow for early stratification of infants at risk of poor psychosocial outcomes
Prospective BMI changes in preschool children are associated with parental characteristics and body weight perceptions: The ToyBox-study
Objective: To examine the effect of the intervention implemented in the ToyBox-study on changes observed in age- and sex-specific BMI percentile and investigate the role of perinatal factors, parental perceptions and characteristics on this change. Design: A multicomponent, kindergarten-based, family-involved intervention with a cluster-randomised design. A standardised protocol was used to measure children’s body weight and height. Information w…
Assessing the effectiveness of a 4‐week online intervention on food literacy and fruit and vegetable consumption in Australian adults: The online MedDiet challenge
Australians fail to meet the daily recommended two and five serves of fruit and vegetable respectively, which increases mortality risk for non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of an online intervention delivered through social media on food literacy and fruit and vegetable consumption in Australian adults. In a pre-post single group experimental study, 29 part…
Nurturing children's development through healthy eating and active living: Time for policies to support effective interventions in the context of responsive emotional support and early learning
Fostering the growth, development, health, and wellbeing of children is a global priority. The early childhood period presents a critical window to influence lifelong trajectories, however urgent multisectoral action is needed to ensure that families are adequately supported to nurture their children's growth and development. With a shared vision to give every child the best start in life, thus helping them reach their full developmental potentia…
Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: A pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants
BACKGROUND: Hypertension can be detected at the primary health-care level and low-cost treatments can effectively control hypertension. We aimed to measure the prevalence of hypertension and progress in its detection, treatment, and control from 1990 to 2019 for 200 countries and territories. METHODS: We used data from 1990 to 2019 on people aged 30-79 years from population-representative studies with measurement of blood pressure and data on blo…
Associations of dietary patterns with blood pressure and markers of subclinical arterial damage in adults with risk factors for CVD
Objective: Unhealthy diet is a modifiable risk factor leading to subclinical arterial damage (SAD), high BP and CVD. It was aimed to investigate the possible associations of dietary patterns (DPs) with SAD in adults having multiple CVD risk factors. Design: Dietary intake was evaluated through two 24-h dietary recalls and principal component analysis was used to identify DPs. Oscillometry, applanation tonometry with pulse wave analysis and caroti…
Poor adherence to the Mediterranean diet is associated with increased likelihood of metabolic syndrome components in children: The Healthy Growth Study
Objective: To examine the associations between the level of adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MedDiet) with obesity, insulin resistance (IR), metabolic syndrome (MetS) and its components in schoolchildren. Design: The Healthy Growth Study was a large epidemiological cross-sectional study. Setting: School children who were enrolled in primary schools in four counties covering the northern, southern, western and central part of Greece were invit…
Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: A pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million p…
BACKGROUND: Comparable global data on health and nutrition of school-aged children and adolescents are scarce. We aimed to estimate age trajectories and time trends in mean height and mean body-mass index (BMI), which measures weight gain beyond what is expected from height gain, for school-aged children and adolescents. METHODS: For this pooled analysis, we used a database of cardiometabolic risk factors collated by the Non-Communicable Disease …
Effectiveness of a family-, school- and community-based intervention on physical activity and its correlates in Belgian families with an increased risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus: The Feel4Diabetes-…
The Feel4Diabetes-study was prospectively registered at clinicaltrials.gov as NCT02393872 on 20 March 2015
The Cardio-Med survey tool: Development and pilot validation of a FFQ in a multicultural cardiology cohort
Objective: (i) Describe the development of a multipurpose Cardio-Med survey tool (CMST) comprising a semi-quantitative FFQ designed to measure dietary intake in multicultural patients with or at high risk of CVD and (ii) report pilot evaluation of test–retest reliability and validity of the FFQ in measuring energy and nutrient intakes. Design: The CMST was developed to identify CVD risk factors and assess diet quality over 1 year using an FFQ. De…
Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults
Body-mass index (BMI) has increased steadily in most countries in parallel with a rise in the proportion of the population who live in cities 1,2 . This has led to a widely reported view that urbanization is one of the most important drivers of the global rise in obesity 3–6 . Here we use 2,009 population-based studies, with measurements of height and weight in more than 112 million adults, to report national, regional and global trends in mean B…
Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: A pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants
BACKGROUND: Raised blood pressure is an important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases and chronic kidney disease. We estimated worldwide trends in mean systolic and mean diastolic blood pressure, and the prevalence of, and number of people with, raised blood pressure, defined as systolic blood pressure of 140 mm Hg or higher or diastolic blood pressure of 90 mm Hg or higher. METHODS: For this analysis, we pooled national, subnational, or comm…
Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: A pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and …
BACKGROUND: Underweight, overweight, and obesity in childhood and adolescence are associated with adverse health consequences throughout the life-course. Our aim was to estimate worldwide trends in mean body-mass index (BMI) and a comprehensive set of BMI categories that cover underweight to obesity in children and adolescents, and to compare trends with those of adults. METHODS: We pooled 2416 population-based studies with measurements of height…
Perinatal, sociodemographic and lifestyle correlates of increased total and visceral fat mass levels in schoolchildren in Greece: The Healthy Growth Study
Objective To identify possibly independent associations of perinatal, sociodemographic and lifestyle factors with childhood total and visceral body fat. Design A representative sample of 2655 schoolchildren (9–13 years) participated in the Healthy Growth Study, a cross-sectional epidemiological study. Setting Seventy-seven primary schools in four large regions in Greece. Subjects A sample of 1228 children having full data on total and visceral fa…
Characteristics of European adults who dropped out from the Food4Me Internet-based personalised nutrition intervention
Objective To characterise participants who dropped out of the Food4Me Proof-of-Principle study. Design The Food4Me study was an Internet-based, 6-month, four-arm, randomised controlled trial. The control group received generalised dietary and lifestyle recommendations, whereas participants randomised to three different levels of personalised nutrition (PN) received advice based on dietary, phenotypic and/or genotypic data, respectively (with eith…
Clustering of adherence to personalised dietary recommendations and changes in healthy eating index within the Food4Me study
Objective To characterise clusters of individuals based on adherence to dietary recommendations and to determine whether changes in Healthy Eating Index (HEI) scores in response to a personalised nutrition (PN) intervention varied between clusters. Design Food4Me study participants were clustered according to whether their baseline dietary intakes met European dietary recommendations. Changes in HEI scores between baseline and month 6 were compar…
Associations between parental rules, style of communication and children’s screen time
International Standard Randomized Controlled Trial Number Register, registration number: ISRCTN34562078 . Date applied29/07/2011, Date assigned11/10/2011
The influence of early feeding practices on healthy diet variety score among pre-school children in four European birth cohorts
Objective The present study examined whether maternal diet and early infant feeding experiences relating to being breast-fed and complementary feeding influence the range of healthy foods consumed in later childhood. Design Data from four European birth cohorts were studied. Healthy Plate Variety Score (HPVS) was calculated using FFQ. HPVS assesses the variety of healthy foods consumed within and across the five main food groups. The weighted num…
Association of distorted eating behaviors with cardiometabolic risk indices in preadolescents. The Healthy Growth Study
Additional benefit in CVD risk indices derived from the consumption of fortified milk when combined with a lifestyle intervention
Objective The current study aimed to evaluate the effect of fortified milk combined with a lifestyle and counselling programme on several CVD risk factors after a 3-month dietary intervention. Design Hypercholesterolaemic adults were randomized to a group supplemented with low-fat milk that was enriched with phytosterols, α-linolenic and linoleic fatty acids, vitamins and antioxidants (enriched milk group, EMG: n 40), a placebo milk group (PMG: n…
Identification of lifestyle patterns associated with obesity and fat mass in children: The Healthy Growth Study
Objective To investigate possible associations of lifestyle patterns with obesity and fat mass in children. Design Cross-sectional epidemiological study. Principal component analysis was used to identify lifestyle patterns. Setting Primary schools from four regions in Greece. Subjects A total of 2073 schoolchildren (aged 9–13 years). Results Children in the fourth quartile of the lifestyle pattern combining higher dairy foods with more adequate b…
Dietary patterns and breakfast consumption in relation to insulin resistance in children. The Healthy Growth Study
Objective Insulin resistance is a significant cross-point for the manifestation of several chronic diseases in children and adults. The aim of the present study was to investigate the possible relationship of certain dietary patterns and breakfast consumption habits with insulin resistance in children. Subjects A representative sample of 1912 schoolchildren (aged 9–13 years) participated in a cross-sectional epidemiological study, the Healthy Gro…
Accuracy and correlates of visual and verbal instruments assessing maternal perceptions of children's weight status: The Healthy Growth Study
Objective To examine the accuracy of maternal ability to classify their children's weight status correctly using a verbal and a visual classification instrument and to detect significant correlates of maternal misperceptions. Design Cross-sectional study. Setting Primary schools in four counties from north, west, central and south Greece. Subjects A representative sample of 1858 primary-school children aged 9–13 years was examined. Two different …
Nurturing children's development through healthy eating and active living: Time for policies to support effective interventions in the context of responsive emotional support and early learning
Fostering the growth, development, health, and wellbeing of children is a global priority. The early childhood period presents a critical window to influence lifelong trajectories, however urgent multisectoral action is needed to ensure that families are adequately supported to nurture their children's growth and development. With a shared vision to give every child the best start in life, thus helping them reach their full developmental potentia…
Assessing the effectiveness of a 4‐week online intervention on food literacy and fruit and vegetable consumption in Australian adults: The online MedDiet challenge
Australians fail to meet the daily recommended two and five serves of fruit and vegetable respectively, which increases mortality risk for non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of an online intervention delivered through social media on food literacy and fruit and vegetable consumption in Australian adults. In a pre-post single group experimental study, 29 part…
Behavioral and physiological indices related to BMI in a cohort of primary schoolchildren in Greece
The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences between normal weight and overweight primary schoolchildren in terms of certain cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors and furthermore to identify behavioral correlates significantly affecting their body mass index (BMI). The sample consisted of 198 children with a mean age of 11.5 +/- 0.4 years (106 females and 92 males). Data was obtained on children anthropometry, plasma lipids, p…
Parental educational level and cardiovascular disease risk factors in schoolchildren in large urban areas of Turkey: Directions for public health policy
Our study provides indications for a possible association between an adverse lipid profile, certain dietary patterns and Higher PEL and MEL among schoolchildren in Turkey. These findings underline the possible role of social status, indicated by the degree of education of both parents, in developing certain health behaviors and health indices among Turkish children and provide some guidance for Public Health Policy
Prevalence of obesity in preschool Greek children, in relation to parental characteristics and region of residence
Both methods used to assess prevalence of obesity have demonstrated that a high percentage of the preschool children in our sample were overweight. Parental body mass index was also shown to be an obesity risk factor in very young children
Social, economic and demographic correlates of overweight and obesity in primary-school children: Preliminary data from the Healthy Growth Study
Objective To record the prevalence of overweight and obesity in urban primary-school children in relation to several socio-economic and demographic factors. Design Cross-sectional. Setting/subjects A representative sample of 729 schoolchildren (379 male and 350 female), aged 9–13 years, stratified by parental educational level, was examined in the urban region of Athens. Weight and height were measured using standard procedures. The International…
Development of a diet–lifestyle quality index for young children and its relation to obesity: The Preschoolers Diet–Lifestyle Index
Objective To develop an index that assesses the degree of adherence to existing diet–lifestyle recommendations for preschoolers (Preschoolers Diet–Lifestyle Index (PDL-Index)) and to investigate its association with obesity. Design The PDL-Index was constructed using eleven components (i.e. questions regarding the frequency of consumption of selected foods/food groups, time spent on television watching and on moderate-to-vigorous physical activit…
Accuracy and correlates of visual and verbal instruments assessing maternal perceptions of children's weight status: The Healthy Growth Study
Objective To examine the accuracy of maternal ability to classify their children's weight status correctly using a verbal and a visual classification instrument and to detect significant correlates of maternal misperceptions. Design Cross-sectional study. Setting Primary schools in four counties from north, west, central and south Greece. Subjects A representative sample of 1858 primary-school children aged 9–13 years was examined. Two different …
Additional benefit in CVD risk indices derived from the consumption of fortified milk when combined with a lifestyle intervention
Objective The current study aimed to evaluate the effect of fortified milk combined with a lifestyle and counselling programme on several CVD risk factors after a 3-month dietary intervention. Design Hypercholesterolaemic adults were randomized to a group supplemented with low-fat milk that was enriched with phytosterols, α-linolenic and linoleic fatty acids, vitamins and antioxidants (enriched milk group, EMG: n 40), a placebo milk group (PMG: n…
Identification of lifestyle patterns associated with obesity and fat mass in children: The Healthy Growth Study
Objective To investigate possible associations of lifestyle patterns with obesity and fat mass in children. Design Cross-sectional epidemiological study. Principal component analysis was used to identify lifestyle patterns. Setting Primary schools from four regions in Greece. Subjects A total of 2073 schoolchildren (aged 9–13 years). Results Children in the fourth quartile of the lifestyle pattern combining higher dairy foods with more adequate b…
Dietary patterns and breakfast consumption in relation to insulin resistance in children. The Healthy Growth Study
Objective Insulin resistance is a significant cross-point for the manifestation of several chronic diseases in children and adults. The aim of the present study was to investigate the possible relationship of certain dietary patterns and breakfast consumption habits with insulin resistance in children. Subjects A representative sample of 1912 schoolchildren (aged 9–13 years) participated in a cross-sectional epidemiological study, the Healthy Gro…
Associations between parental rules, style of communication and children’s screen time
International Standard Randomized Controlled Trial Number Register, registration number: ISRCTN34562078 . Date applied29/07/2011, Date assigned11/10/2011
The influence of early feeding practices on healthy diet variety score among pre-school children in four European birth cohorts
Objective The present study examined whether maternal diet and early infant feeding experiences relating to being breast-fed and complementary feeding influence the range of healthy foods consumed in later childhood. Design Data from four European birth cohorts were studied. Healthy Plate Variety Score (HPVS) was calculated using FFQ. HPVS assesses the variety of healthy foods consumed within and across the five main food groups. The weighted num…
Association of distorted eating behaviors with cardiometabolic risk indices in preadolescents. The Healthy Growth Study
Clustering of adherence to personalised dietary recommendations and changes in healthy eating index within the Food4Me study
Objective To characterise clusters of individuals based on adherence to dietary recommendations and to determine whether changes in Healthy Eating Index (HEI) scores in response to a personalised nutrition (PN) intervention varied between clusters. Design Food4Me study participants were clustered according to whether their baseline dietary intakes met European dietary recommendations. Changes in HEI scores between baseline and month 6 were compar…
Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: A pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants
BACKGROUND: Raised blood pressure is an important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases and chronic kidney disease. We estimated worldwide trends in mean systolic and mean diastolic blood pressure, and the prevalence of, and number of people with, raised blood pressure, defined as systolic blood pressure of 140 mm Hg or higher or diastolic blood pressure of 90 mm Hg or higher. METHODS: For this analysis, we pooled national, subnational, or comm…
Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: A pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and …
BACKGROUND: Underweight, overweight, and obesity in childhood and adolescence are associated with adverse health consequences throughout the life-course. Our aim was to estimate worldwide trends in mean body-mass index (BMI) and a comprehensive set of BMI categories that cover underweight to obesity in children and adolescents, and to compare trends with those of adults. METHODS: We pooled 2416 population-based studies with measurements of height…
Perinatal, sociodemographic and lifestyle correlates of increased total and visceral fat mass levels in schoolchildren in Greece: The Healthy Growth Study
Objective To identify possibly independent associations of perinatal, sociodemographic and lifestyle factors with childhood total and visceral body fat. Design A representative sample of 2655 schoolchildren (9–13 years) participated in the Healthy Growth Study, a cross-sectional epidemiological study. Setting Seventy-seven primary schools in four large regions in Greece. Subjects A sample of 1228 children having full data on total and visceral fa…
Characteristics of European adults who dropped out from the Food4Me Internet-based personalised nutrition intervention
Objective To characterise participants who dropped out of the Food4Me Proof-of-Principle study. Design The Food4Me study was an Internet-based, 6-month, four-arm, randomised controlled trial. The control group received generalised dietary and lifestyle recommendations, whereas participants randomised to three different levels of personalised nutrition (PN) received advice based on dietary, phenotypic and/or genotypic data, respectively (with eith…
Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults
Body-mass index (BMI) has increased steadily in most countries in parallel with a rise in the proportion of the population who live in cities 1,2 . This has led to a widely reported view that urbanization is one of the most important drivers of the global rise in obesity 3–6 . Here we use 2,009 population-based studies, with measurements of height and weight in more than 112 million adults, to report national, regional and global trends in mean B…
Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: A pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million p…
BACKGROUND: Comparable global data on health and nutrition of school-aged children and adolescents are scarce. We aimed to estimate age trajectories and time trends in mean height and mean body-mass index (BMI), which measures weight gain beyond what is expected from height gain, for school-aged children and adolescents. METHODS: For this pooled analysis, we used a database of cardiometabolic risk factors collated by the Non-Communicable Disease …
Effectiveness of a family-, school- and community-based intervention on physical activity and its correlates in Belgian families with an increased risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus: The Feel4Diabetes-…
The Feel4Diabetes-study was prospectively registered at clinicaltrials.gov as NCT02393872 on 20 March 2015
The Cardio-Med survey tool: Development and pilot validation of a FFQ in a multicultural cardiology cohort
Objective: (i) Describe the development of a multipurpose Cardio-Med survey tool (CMST) comprising a semi-quantitative FFQ designed to measure dietary intake in multicultural patients with or at high risk of CVD and (ii) report pilot evaluation of test–retest reliability and validity of the FFQ in measuring energy and nutrient intakes. Design: The CMST was developed to identify CVD risk factors and assess diet quality over 1 year using an FFQ. De…
Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: A pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants
BACKGROUND: Hypertension can be detected at the primary health-care level and low-cost treatments can effectively control hypertension. We aimed to measure the prevalence of hypertension and progress in its detection, treatment, and control from 1990 to 2019 for 200 countries and territories. METHODS: We used data from 1990 to 2019 on people aged 30-79 years from population-representative studies with measurement of blood pressure and data on blo…
Associations of dietary patterns with blood pressure and markers of subclinical arterial damage in adults with risk factors for CVD
Objective: Unhealthy diet is a modifiable risk factor leading to subclinical arterial damage (SAD), high BP and CVD. It was aimed to investigate the possible associations of dietary patterns (DPs) with SAD in adults having multiple CVD risk factors. Design: Dietary intake was evaluated through two 24-h dietary recalls and principal component analysis was used to identify DPs. Oscillometry, applanation tonometry with pulse wave analysis and caroti…
Poor adherence to the Mediterranean diet is associated with increased likelihood of metabolic syndrome components in children: The Healthy Growth Study
Objective: To examine the associations between the level of adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MedDiet) with obesity, insulin resistance (IR), metabolic syndrome (MetS) and its components in schoolchildren. Design: The Healthy Growth Study was a large epidemiological cross-sectional study. Setting: School children who were enrolled in primary schools in four counties covering the northern, southern, western and central part of Greece were invit…
Prospective BMI changes in preschool children are associated with parental characteristics and body weight perceptions: The ToyBox-study
Objective: To examine the effect of the intervention implemented in the ToyBox-study on changes observed in age- and sex-specific BMI percentile and investigate the role of perinatal factors, parental perceptions and characteristics on this change. Design: A multicomponent, kindergarten-based, family-involved intervention with a cluster-randomised design. A standardised protocol was used to measure children’s body weight and height. Information w…
Medicine (29 works) · Demography (23 works) · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (21 works) · Environmental health (16 works) · Internal Medicine (16 works) · Demography (15 works) · Obesity (13 works) · Body mass index (11 works) · Overweight (11 works) · Nutritional Studies and Diet (10 works)