The Relationship between Executive Function and Obesity in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Literature Review

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Reinert, Kaela R. S. [1 ]
Po'e, Eli K. [2 ]
Barkin, Shari L. [3 ]
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[1] Med Univ South Carolina, Med Student, 169 Ashley Ave, Charleston, SC 29403 USA
[2] Vanderbilt Univ, Med Ctr, Dept Pediat, Nashville, TN 37212 USA
[3] Vanderbilt Univ, Diabet Res & Training Ctr, Sch Med, Nashville, TN 37212 USA
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10.1155/2013/820956
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R5 [内科学];
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1002 ; 100201 ;
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The objective of this paper is to examine the relationship between the development of executive function (EF) and obesity in children and adolescents. We reviewed 1,065 unique abstracts: 31 from PubMed, 87 from Google Scholar, 16 from Science Direct, and 931 from PsycINFO. Of those abstracts, 28 met inclusion criteria and were reviewed. From the articles reviewed, an additional 3 articles were added from article references (N = 31). Twenty-three studies pertained to EF (2 also studied the prefrontal and orbitofrontal cortices (OFCs); 6 also studied cognitive function), five studied the relationship between obesity and prefrontal and orbitofrontal cortices, and three evaluated cognitive function and obesity. Inhibitory control was most often studied in both childhood (76.9%) and adolescent (72.7%) studies, and obese children performed significantly worse (P < 0.05) than healthy weight controls on various tasks measuring this EF domain. Although 27.3% of adolescent studies measured mental flexibility, no childhood studies examined this EF domain. Adolescents with higher BMI had a strong association with neurostructural deficits evident in the OFC. Future research should be longitudinal and use a uniform method of EF measurement to better establish causality between EF and obesity and consequently direct future intervention strategies.
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