Dengel and colleagues publish in BMC Pediatrics.

Donald Dengel, Ph.D., professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Laboratory of integrative Human Physiology and colleagues recently published an article in BMC Pediatrics. The article was titled, “Relation of adiposity, television and screen time in offspring to their parents.” The research found that for both parent and offspring, adiposity (i.e., body fat) was greater with greater total screen time.


The full citation is as follows: Steffen LM, Sinaiko AR, Zhou X, Moran A, Jacobs DR, Korenfeld Y, Dengel DR, Chow LS, Steinberger J: Relation of adiposity, television and screen time in offspring to their parents. BMC Pediatrics 13:133, 2013.