The longitudinal association between early-life screen viewing and abdominal adiposity-findings from a multiethnic birth cohort study.
Padmapriya NatarajanMya-Thway TintSuresh Anand SadananthanNavin MichaelBozhi ChenShirong CaiJia Ying TohCarla Costa LançaKok Hian TanSeang Mei SawLynette Pei-Chi ShekYap Seng ChongPeter D GluckmanYung Seng LeeFabian Kok Peng YapMarielle V FortierMary Foong-Fong ChongKeith M GodfreyJohan G ErikssonS Sendhil VelanMichael S KramerJonathan Y BernardFalk Müller-RiemenschneiderPublished in: International journal of obesity (2005) (2021)
Greater total screen-viewing time (and in particular, handheld device viewing time) was associated with higher abdominal adiposity in boys and Malay children. Additional studies are necessary to confirm these associations and to examine screen-viewing interventions for preventing excessive abdominal adiposity and its adverse cardiometabolic consequences.