Television watching and risk of childhood obesity: a meta-analysis

2015141 citationsReviewbronze Open Access

Authors

Gang Zhang · Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University

Lingling Zhou · Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University

Weifeng Lu · Nanjing Children's Hospital

Chunting Mao · Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University

Abstract

our meta-analysis suggested that increased TV watching is associated with increased risk of childhood obesity. And restricting TV time and other sedentary behaviour of children may be an important public health strategy to prevent childhood obesity.

Topics & Keywords

Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet Child Development and Digital Technology Mobile Health and mHealth Applications

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: European Journal of Public Health

Volume 26, Issue 1, pp. 13-18

DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckv213

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