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Screen time and childhood overweight/obesity: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

2019; Wiley; Volume: 45; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/cch.12701

1365-2214

Kehong Fang, Min Mu, Kai Liu, Yuna He,

Impact of Technology on Adolescents

Controlling childhood overweight/obesity would help early prevention on children from getting chronic noncommunicable diseases, exposing to screen for long periods may increase the risk of overweight/obesity due to lack of physical activity and tend to intake too much energy, and the relationship between screen time and overweight/obesity is inconsistent. Thus, the object of the present study was to estimate the relationship between screen time and overweight/obesity in children (<18 years) by systematically review prevalence studies.