Preventive medicine needs to begin with our children

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Preventive medicine needs to begin with our children

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Although cardiovascular disease (CVD) is typically associated with middle or old age, the atherosclerotic process often initiates early in childhood and is occurring at an increasing rate. There is a consensus that changes in life-style have driven the current epidemic. Adverse changes in physical activity, nutrition, and sleep behavior have been strongly linked to the development of a host of cardio-metabolic conditions, including obesity, dyslipidemia, hypertension, and type 2 diabetes mell...

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Date created

2014-01

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Lambrick, DM / Stoner, L / Faulkner, J / Hamlin, Michael

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https://hdl.handle.net/10182/11494

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childhood obesity / CVD / cardiovascular disease / Public Health and Health Services / Human Movement and Sports Sciences / Biomedical and clinical sciences / Health sciences

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