TY - JOUR
T1 - Conceptual framework of a simplified multi-dimensional model presenting the environmental and personal determinants of cardiometabolic risk behaviors in childhood
AU - Moschonis, George
AU - Tsoutsoulopoulou, Konstantina
AU - Efstathopoulou, Eirini
AU - Tsirigoti, Lydia
AU - Lambrinou, Christina Paulina
AU - Georgiou, Alexandra
AU - Filippou, Christina
AU - Lidoriki, Irene
AU - Reppas, Kyriakos
AU - Androutsos, Odysseas
AU - Lionis, Christos
AU - Chrousos, George P.
AU - Manios, Yannis
PY - 2015/6/1
Y1 - 2015/6/1
N2 - Clinical manifestations of cardiometabolic risk (CMR) may be set early in childhood due to unfavorable behaviors or lifestyle patterns related to diet and physical activity. Several factors may determine the adoption of such lifestyle-related behaviors, which researchers have tried to cluster under certain frameworks or models. In this context, the framework developed and proposed by this review gathers all the present knowledge regarding these determining factors to date and groups them into three main categories related to personal characteristics and the social and physical environment. Based on the proposed framework, a large variety of personal, social and physical environmental factors can positively or negatively influence CMR-related behaviors (either directly or indirectly via their interrelations), thus leading to decreased or increased risk, respectively. This framework could be of great value to public health policy makers and legislators for designing and implementing interventional programs tailored to the needs of susceptible population groups who are most in need for such initiatives. Targeting the correlates as potential determinants of CMR-related behaviors, and not just on the behaviors themselves, has been shown previously to be the most effective approach for tackling health issues related to CMR starting from early life stages..
AB - Clinical manifestations of cardiometabolic risk (CMR) may be set early in childhood due to unfavorable behaviors or lifestyle patterns related to diet and physical activity. Several factors may determine the adoption of such lifestyle-related behaviors, which researchers have tried to cluster under certain frameworks or models. In this context, the framework developed and proposed by this review gathers all the present knowledge regarding these determining factors to date and groups them into three main categories related to personal characteristics and the social and physical environment. Based on the proposed framework, a large variety of personal, social and physical environmental factors can positively or negatively influence CMR-related behaviors (either directly or indirectly via their interrelations), thus leading to decreased or increased risk, respectively. This framework could be of great value to public health policy makers and legislators for designing and implementing interventional programs tailored to the needs of susceptible population groups who are most in need for such initiatives. Targeting the correlates as potential determinants of CMR-related behaviors, and not just on the behaviors themselves, has been shown previously to be the most effective approach for tackling health issues related to CMR starting from early life stages..
KW - cardiometabolic risk
KW - children
KW - environmental determinants
KW - personal determinants
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84929855602&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1586/14779072.2015.1039992
DO - 10.1586/14779072.2015.1039992
M3 - Review article
C2 - 25926102
AN - SCOPUS:84929855602
SN - 1477-9072
VL - 13
SP - 673
EP - 692
JO - Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy
JF - Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy
IS - 6
ER -