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The Lived Experience Of Weight Retention Among Postpartum African American Adolescents, Thelma Mae Phillips
The Lived Experience Of Weight Retention Among Postpartum African American Adolescents, Thelma Mae Phillips
Wayne State University Dissertations
Background: Obesity presents a public health challenge and is a serious chronic medical condition, which is associated with multiple co-morbidities and reduced survivability/longevity (Davis, Stange, & Howitz, 2010). African American adolescents who retain weight after pregnancy are at the highest risk of becoming obese adults. Obesity is expected to cost the United States health care system over 237 million dollars (National Institutes of health, 2011) within the next decade.
The prevalence of obesity is cause for concern because of its costs to the economic base of the country and its toll in human suffering due to related morbidity and mortality. …