Why the study?
Does obesity affect health-related quality of life in adolescents?
Does obesity affect health-related quality of life in adolescents?
Adolescent obesity negatively impacts physical quality of life but does not appear to affect emotional, school, or social functioning in the general population.
May inform physical interventions in obese adolescents; leaves open psychosocial QoL effects pending prospective data.
Using a nationally representative sample, we found that obesity in adolescence is linked with poor physical quality of life. However, in the general population, adolescents with above normal body mass did not report poorer emotional, school, or social functioning.
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Swallen et al. (2005) studied this question.
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