Joint pain revealed in young girls due to obesity

 

 

 

 

Jointpain revealed in young girls due to obesity

   Joint pain revealed in young girls due to obesity

London: A new study has found that girls as young as four years of age are suffering from joint pain due to obesity.

A review of data from 120 children from the National Child Measurement Program and data from general practitioners found that girls were twice as likely to complain of musculoskeletal (related to bones, joints, muscles or nerves) problems as boys. Gone.

Among these ailments, knee and back problems were the most common. According to experts, this pain in little girls was due to excess weight. However, according to researchers at Queen Mary University of London, no such effects were observed in boys due to excess weight.

In the study, the researchers analysed the data of 63,418 children who went to primary school between the ages of four and five and 55,364 children six years later (when the children were 10 to 11 years old).

When these children started primary school, 8.9 percent of boys were obese, while 7.1 percent of girls were obese. In the sixth year of the study, these rates increased to 19.9 percent and 14.4 percent, respectively.

When data from general practitioners was compared, the researchers found three per cent of primary school children and eight per cent of children in year six had at least one appointment with a joint specialist. According to the data, 194 children aged four to five years and 875 children in the sixth year of the study went to the doctor to solve this problem

   Joint pain revealed in young girls due to obesity.

According to a study published in the Archives of Diseases in Childhood, girls were more likely to see a doctor overall.

24% of girls in primary school consulted doctors at least once because of being overweight. Which can increase to 67% in case of obesity.