Sociocultural differences in the development of obesity in adolescents in Murcia.

Background: Childhood obesity presents alarming numbers in our country, being even higher in the population of immigrant origin. The main objective was to analyse the excess weight numbers both in native adolescents and in those children of immigrants and to determine the ethnic influence on lifestyle habits that could condition these differences in weight overload.

Methods: Adolescents from 1st year of Obligatory Secondary Education (E.

Relationship between modifiable risk factors and overweight in adolescents aged 12-14 years.

Introduction: Spain is the European leader in overweight (O-W), partly to the social and environmental changes of the last decades. The objective of the work was to study the modifiable risk factors that lead to O-W.

Material And Methods: A self-designed questionnaire with factors related to childhood obesity was produced, and was administered to the parents of adolescents who were attending first year of high school in four centres in Health Area V in Murcia.

Usefulness of complementary test in the study of patients with chronic abdominal pain.

Introduction: Chronic abdominal pain (CAP) in children is a symptom that frequently leads to a visit to the paediatrician, which affects family life and occasionally requires the need to perform diagnostic studies (DS). The objective was to carry out a qualitative, quantitative, and economic analysis on the tests requested.

Material And Methods: An observational, prospective and multicentre study was conducted that included children between 4-15 years old affected by CAP.