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: Received: 22 July 2023 / Approved: 26 July 2023 / Online: 26 July 2023 (07:02:56 CEST)
How to cite:
THEOFILOU, P.; VLASTOS, D. D. Obesity in Adolescents: Can It Be Affected by the Use of the Technological Media?. Preprints2023, 2023071763. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202307.1763.v1
THEOFILOU, P.; VLASTOS, D. D. Obesity in Adolescents: Can It Be Affected by the Use of the Technological Media?. Preprints 2023, 2023071763. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202307.1763.v1
THEOFILOU, P.; VLASTOS, D. D. Obesity in Adolescents: Can It Be Affected by the Use of the Technological Media?. Preprints2023, 2023071763. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202307.1763.v1
APA Style
THEOFILOU, P., & VLASTOS, D. D. (2023). Obesity in Adolescents: Can It Be Affected by the Use of the Technological Media?. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202307.1763.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
THEOFILOU, P. and DIMITRIS D. VLASTOS. 2023 "Obesity in Adolescents: Can It Be Affected by the Use of the Technological Media?" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202307.1763.v1
Abstract
One of the most important problems, which public health is called to face, is obesity. The World Health Organization (WHO) underlines that worldwide more than 380 million of overweight or obese children and adolescents exist. Although obesity is a multifactorial disease, excessive use of the screen seems to act in a way that affects obesity. The purpose of this systematic literature review is to study of the major problem, obesity in teenagers and its association with the hours of entertainment(referring to excessive hours of television use and viewing, video games and social media).In the present systematic literature review was carried out search for sources, through the scientific databases PubMed, ScienceDirect, and Scopus for the period from 2010 to 2022.This systematic review provides public health evidence regarding the positive association of excessive screen time and of obesity and overweight in adolescents.
Keywords
Obesity; Adolescents; media; video
Subject
Public Health and Healthcare, Public, Environmental and Occupational Health
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