Food insecurity in households of children receiving care at a paediatric obesity management clinic in Montreal: Overall prevalence and changes associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Marie Cyrenne-DussaultMaude SiroisJulie St-PierreJean-Philippe Drouin-ChartierPublished in: Paediatrics & child health (2022)
Forty per cent of children treated at this paediatric obesity clinic lived in a food insecure household. This prevalence may have increased during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, but statistical power was insufficient to confirm it.
Keyphrases
- insulin resistance
- metabolic syndrome
- weight loss
- young adults
- intensive care unit
- risk factors
- type diabetes
- primary care
- emergency department
- high fat diet induced
- weight gain
- healthcare
- palliative care
- mild cognitive impairment
- adipose tissue
- quality improvement
- risk assessment
- skeletal muscle
- pain management
- chronic pain
- physical activity
- newly diagnosed