{"id":34422,"date":"2018-06-17T11:55:50","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T11:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=34422"},"modified":"2018-06-17T11:55:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T11:55:50","slug":"childhood-obesity-can-increase-risk-of-osteoarthritis-in-adulthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/childhood-obesity-can-increase-risk-of-osteoarthritis-in-adulthood\/","title":{"rendered":"Childhood obesity can increase risk of osteoarthritis in adulthood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obesity in childhood and adulthood can raise the risk of knee and hip osteoarthritis, according to a study. \u201cObesity in both childhood and adulthood is an important public health issue,\u201d said Professor Johannes W. Bijlsma, EULAR President.<\/p>\n<p>Results of the study indicated that adult body mass index (BMI) significantly increased the prevalence of self-reported OA, knee OA or hip OA by 2.7%, 1.3%, and 0.4% per unit (1 kg\/m2) increase in BMI respectively. Childhood BMI significantly increased the prevalence of self-reported OA, knee OA or hip OA by 1.7%, 0.6%, and 0.6% per BMI unit respectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur results suggest the effect of adult BMI seems to be stronger on knees, whilst childhood BMI might impact both knee and hip osteoarthritis risk similarly,\u201d said Professor Prieto-Alhambra (senior study author). \u201cInterestingly our findings contradict previous studies that found an association between obesity and hand osteoarthritis.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obesity in childhood and adulthood can raise the risk of knee and hip osteoarthritis, according to a study. \u201cObesity in both childhood and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34423,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34424,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34422\/revisions\/34424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}