{"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<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","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 adulthood is an important public health issue,\u201d said Professor Johannes W. Bijlsma, EULAR President. Results of the study indicated that adult body mass index (BMI) significantly increased the prevalence of self-reported OA, [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34423,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"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}]}}