Pediatric Obesity

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Greenlight study": a controlled trial of low-literacy, early childhood obesity prevention. 
  • A Health-Literacy Intervention for Early Childhood Obesity Prevention: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial. 
  • A Mixed-Methods Examination of Referral Processes to Clinic-Community Partnership Programs for the Treatment of Childhood Obesity. 
  • A Systematic Review to Assess Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Interventions for Children and Adolescents across the Socioecological Model. 
  • A community-based intervention increases physical activity and reduces obesity in school-age children in North Carolina. 
  • Adiposity in Juvenile Psoriatic Arthritis. 
  • Adolescent preferences and reactions to language about body weight. 
  • Adolescent report of lifestyle counseling. 
  • Advanced Obesity Treatment Selection among Adolescents in a Pediatric Weight Management Program. 
  • An Integrated Clinic-Community Model to Treat Childhood Obesity: Revisiting 2 Years Later. 
  • An Integrated Clinic-Community Partnership for Child Obesity Treatment: A Randomized Pilot Trial. 
  • An accountability evaluation for the industry's responsible use of brand mascots and licensed media characters to market a healthy diet to American children. 
  • Antecedents of Obesity Among Children Born Extremely Preterm. 
  • Application of the Intervention Mapping protocol to develop Keys, a family child care home intervention to prevent early childhood obesity. 
  • Appraisal of Clinical Care Practices for Child Obesity Treatment. Part I: Interventions. 
  • Appraisal of Clinical Care Practices for Child Obesity Treatment. Part II: Comorbidities. 
  • Association Between Bottle Size and Formula Intake in 2-Month-Old Infants. 
  • Association between exposure to fine particulate matter and obesity in children: A national representative cross-sectional study in China. 
  • Association of Picky Eating With Weight Status and Dietary Quality Among Low-Income Preschoolers. 
  • Association of prepubertal obesity with pubertal development in Chinese girls and boys: A longitudinal study. 
  • Associations Between Food Insecurity and Parental Feeding Behaviors of Toddlers. 
  • Associations between attention deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms and eating behaviors in early childhood. 
  • Associations between maternal obesity, gestational cytokine levels and child obesity in the NEST cohort. 
  • Associations between milk fat content and obesity, 1999 to 2016. 
  • Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms Are Associated with Overeating with and without Loss of Control in Youth with Overweight/Obesity. 
  • Bariatric Surgery: A Potential Treatment for Type 2 Diabetes in Youth. 
  • Behavioral Economic Insights for Pediatric Obesity: Suggestions for Translating the Guidelines for Our Patients. 
  • Body Mass Index Change Between Referral to and Enrollment in Pediatric Weight Management. 
  • Body fat distribution, metabolic and inflammatory markers and retinal microvasculature in school-age children. The Generation R Study. 
  • Branched-chain α-keto acids and glutamate/glutamine: Biomarkers of insulin resistance in childhood obesity. 
  • Cadmium exposure increases the risk of juvenile obesity: a human and zebrafish comparative study. 
  • Cardiometabolic Risk Factors among Severely Obese Children and Adolescents in the United States, 1999-2012. 
  • Carrying the Weight: Athletics and Obesity in High School Football Players. 
  • Changes in cardiovascular health and physical fitness in ethnic youth with intellectual disabilities participating in a park-based afterschool programme for two years. 
  • Chemical constituents of ambient fine particulate matter and obesity among school-aged children: A representative national study in China. 
  • Childcare before age 6 and body mass index at age 7 years in a cohort of Danish children. 
  • Childhood body mass index and endothelial dysfunction evaluated by peripheral arterial tonometry in early midlife. 
  • Childhood obesity in relation to poor asthma control and exacerbation: a meta-analysis. 
  • Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Treatment of Children and Adolescents With Obesity. 
  • Consumption of obesogenic foods in non-Hispanic black mother-infant dyads. 
  • Correlations of skin fold thickness and validation of prediction equations using DEXA as the gold standard for estimation of body fat composition in Pakistani children. 
  • DNA methylation and body mass index from birth to adolescence: meta-analyses of epigenome-wide association studies. 
  • Deconstructing race and gender differences in adolescent obesity: Oaxaca-blinder decomposition. 
  • Defining "Success" in Childhood Obesity Interventions in Primary Care. 
  • Design and implementation of a study evaluating extinction processes to food cues in obese children: the Intervention for Regulations of Cues Trial (iROC). 
  • Determinants of Risk for Childhood Obesity. 
  • Developing an Algorithm to Detect Early Childhood Obesity in Two Tertiary Pediatric Medical Centers. 
  • Development and Implementation of an Interactive Text Messaging Campaign to Support Behavior Change in a Childhood Obesity Randomized Controlled Trial. 
  • Development and Preliminary Feasibility of iByte4Health: A Mobile Health (mHealth) Pediatric Obesity Prevention Intervention to Engage Parents with Low-Income of Children 2-9 Years. 
  • Digital Weight Loss Intervention for Parents of Children Being Treated for Obesity: A Prospective Cohort Feasibility Trial. 
  • Do high-risk preschoolers or overweight mothers meet AAP-recommended behavioral goals for reducing obesity? 
  • Does cesarean delivery impact infant weight gain and adiposity over the first year of life? 
  • Durability of Changes in Biomarkers of Cardiometabolic Disease: 1-Year Family-Based Intervention in Children with Obesity. 
  • Early Child Care and Weight Status in a Cohort of Predominantly Black Infants in the Southeastern United States. 
  • Effect of participation in a park-based afterschool program on cardiovascular disease risk among severely obese youth. 
  • Effect of teaching motivational interviewing via communication coaching on clinician and patient satisfaction in primary care and pediatric obesity-focused offices. 
  • Effectiveness of Implementing Initial Education Strategies to Promote Awareness and Healthy Habits in Childhood Obesity: A Quality Improvement Project. 
  • Effects of age, sex, race/ethnicity, and allergy status in obesity-related pediatric asthma. 
  • Efficacy of a Community- Versus Primary Care-Centered Program for Childhood Obesity: TX CORD RCT. 
  • Elevated blood pressure in youth in pediatric weight management programs in the Pediatric Obesity Weight Evaluation Registry (POWER). 
  • Elevated metabolites of acetaminophen in cord blood of children with obesity. 
  • Elevations of inflammatory proteins in neonatal blood are associated with obesity and overweight among 2-year-old children born extremely premature. 
  • Endothelial dysfunction and cardiovascular disease in childhood obesity. 
  • Establishment of the Pediatric Obesity Weight Evaluation Registry: A National Research Collaborative for Identifying the Optimal Assessment and Treatment of Pediatric Obesity. 
  • Evaluation of Autonomic Nervous System Dysfunction in Childhood Obesity and Prader-Willi Syndrome. 
  • Executive Summary: Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Treatment of Children and Adolescents With Obesity. 
  • Exercise, obesity, and asthma in children and adolescents. 
  • Family Home Food Environment and Nutrition-Related Parent and Child Personal and Behavioral Outcomes of the Healthy Home Offerings via the Mealtime Environment (HOME) Plus Program: A Randomized Controlled Trial. 
  • Family-based obesity prevention for infants: Design of the "Mothers & Others" randomized trial. 
  • Feasibility of a Clinic-Community Partnership to Treat Childhood Obesity. 
  • Flattening the (BMI) Curve: Timing of Child Obesity Onset and Cardiovascular Risk. 
  • Food Insecurity Associated With Underestimation of Weight Status in Children With a Healthy Weight. 
  • Food insecurity is associated with increased weight loss attempts in children and adolescents. 
  • Friends Like Me: Associations in Overweight/Obese Status among Adolescent Friends by Race/Ethnicity, Sex, and Friendship Type. 
  • Gaps in Drug Dosing for Obese Children: A Systematic Review of Commonly Prescribed Emergency Care Medications. 
  • Health Effects of Overweight and Obesity in 195 Countries over 25 Years. 
  • Health Outcomes of Youth in Clinical Pediatric Weight Management Programs in POWER. 
  • Ignoring regression to the mean leads to unsupported conclusion about obesity. 
  • Impact of Game-Based Health Promotion Programs on Body Mass Index in Overweight/Obese Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. 
  • Impact of lifestyle Intervention on branched-chain amino acid catabolism and insulin sensitivity in adolescents with obesity. 
  • Impact of obesity on operative treatment and inpatient outcomes of paediatric limb fractures. 
  • Implicit Weight Bias in Children Age 9 to 11 Years. 
  • Incorporating primary and secondary prevention approaches to address childhood obesity prevention and treatment in a low-income, ethnically diverse population: study design and demographic data from the Texas Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration (TX CORD) study. 
  • Infant Television Watching Predicts Toddler Television Watching in a Low-Income Population. 
  • Influence of food companies' brand mascots and entertainment companies' cartoon media characters on children's diet and health: a systematic review and research needs. 
  • Insulin Sensitivity and β-Cell Function Improve after Gastric Bypass in Severely Obese Adolescents. 
  • Interplay between Immune and Airway Smooth Muscle Cells in Obese Asthma. 
  • Is It Time to Remove BMI Screening from School Settings? 
  • Is obesity associated with a decline in intelligence quotient during the first half of the life course? 
  • Ketogenic diet as an advanced option for the management of pediatric obesity. 
  • Keys to healthy family child care homes: Results from a cluster randomized trial. 
  • Latino Children's Obesity Risk Varies by Place of Birth: Findings from New York City Public School Youth, 2006-2017. 
  • Lifestyle factors and fetal and childhood origins of type 2 diabetes: a prospective study of Chinese and European adults. 
  • Lifetime direct medical costs of childhood obesity. 
  • Longitudinal Association between Weight Status, Aerobic Capacity, Muscular Strength, and Endurance among New York City Youth, 2010-2017. 
  • Longitudinal associations between facets of sleep and adiposity in youth. 
  • Loss-of-Control Eating and Obesity Among Children and Adolescents. 
  • Macronutrient Regulation of Ghrelin and Peptide YY in Pediatric Obesity and Prader-Willi Syndrome. 
  • Mapping local patterns of childhood overweight and wasting in low- and middle-income countries between 2000 and 2017. 
  • Maternal Stress and Excessive Weight Gain in Infancy. 
  • Maternal hormonal contraceptive use and offspring overweight or obesity. 
  • Mental Health and Functional Outcomes in Young Adulthood of Children With Psychotic Symptoms: A Longitudinal Cohort Study. 
  • Neurocognitive and Health Correlates of Overweight and Obesity among Ten-Year-Old Children Born Extremely Preterm. 
  • Nurse-Led Telephone Follow-Up to Improve Parent Promotion of Healthy Behaviors in Young Children With Motivational Interviewing Techniques. 
  • Nutrition and physical activity randomized control trial in child care centers improves knowledge, policies, and children's body mass index. 
  • Nutritional quality of foods marketed to children in Honduras. 
  • Obese Children Require Lower Doses of Pantoprazole Than Nonobese Peers to Achieve Equal Systemic Drug Exposures. 
  • Obesity Prevention and Treatment in Primary Care. 
  • Obesity and childhood asthma. 
  • Obesogenic Behavior and Weight-Based Stigma in Popular Children's Movies, 2012 to 2015. 
  • Obestatin and adropin in Prader-Willi syndrome and nonsyndromic obesity: Associations with weight, BMI-z, and HOMA-IR. 
  • Overeating phenotypes in overweight and obese children. 
  • Parent health literacy and "obesogenic" feeding and physical activity-related infant care behaviors. 
  • Parent-adolescent influences on everyday dietary practices: Perceptions of adolescent females with obesity and their mothers. 
  • Parental Feeding Beliefs and Practices and Household Food Insecurity in Infancy. 
  • Parental obesity moderates the relationship between childhood appetitive traits and weight. 
  • Parenting Stress, Child Weight-Related Behaviors, and Child Weight Status. 
  • Pass the popcorn: "obesogenic" behaviors and stigma in children's movies. 
  • Patient Retention in Pediatric Weight Management Programs in the United States: Analyses of Data from the Pediatrics Obesity Weight Evaluation Registry. 
  • Pediatric Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery: Evidence, Barriers, and Best Practices. 
  • Pharmacokinetics of Ceftazidime in Children and Adolescents with Obesity. 
  • Pharmacokinetics of Hydrochlorothiazide in Children: A Potential Surrogate for Renal Secretion Maturation. 
  • Pharmacologic Weight Management in the Era of Adolescent Obesity. 
  • Predictors of childhood obesity and pathogenesis of comorbidities. 
  • Prenatal Phthalate Exposures and Body Mass Index Among 4- to 7-Year-old Children: A Pooled Analysis. 
  • Prevalence and trends in obesity and severe obesity among children in the United States, 1999-2012. 
  • Prevalence of Obesity and Severe Obesity in US Children, 1999-2016. 
  • Prevalence of obesity and severe obesity in US children, 1999-2014. 
  • Preventing childhood obesity in early care and education settings: lessons from two intervention studies. 
  • Preventing obesity in infants and toddlers in child care: results from a pilot randomized controlled trial. 
  • Primary care providers' self-efficacy and outcome expectations for childhood obesity counseling. 
  • Public Policies to Reduce Sugary Drink Consumption in Children and Adolescents. 
  • Racial Differences in Obesity-Related Risk Factors Between 2-Year-Old Children Born of Overweight Mothers. 
  • Rapid deterioration of insulin secretion in obese adolescents preceding the onset of type 2 diabetes. 
  • Rationale and design of "Hearts & Parks": study protocol for a pragmatic randomized clinical trial of an integrated clinic-community intervention to treat pediatric obesity. 
  • Reducing childhood obesity through U.S. federal policy: a microsimulation analysis. 
  • Reframing the early childhood obesity prevention narrative through an equitable nurturing approach. 
  • Regression to the Mean: A Commonly Overlooked and Misunderstood Factor Leading to Unjustified Conclusions in Pediatric Obesity Research. 
  • Rethinking obesity counseling: having the French Fry Discussion. 
  • Role of GLP-1 Receptor Agonists in Pediatric Obesity: Benefits, Risks, and Approaches to Patient Selection. 
  • Role of Policies and Practices within Early Care and Education Programs to Support Healthy Food and Physical Activity Practices. 
  • Satiety responsiveness and the relationship between breastfeeding and weight status of toddlers of overweight and obese women. 
  • Scaling-Up Stage 4 Pediatric Obesity Clinics: Identifying Barriers and Future Directions Using Implementation Science. 
  • Screen Time Parenting Practices and Associations with Preschool Children's TV Viewing and Weight-Related Outcomes. 
  • Screening for hormonal, monogenic, and syndromic disorders in obese infants and children. 
  • Screening for metabolic and reproductive complications in obese children and adolescents. 
  • Secretive eating among youth with overweight or obesity. 
  • Sociocultural and socioeconomic influences on type 2 diabetes risk in overweight/obese African-American and Latino-American children and adolescents. 
  • Socioeconomic Determinants of Childhood Overweight in China: The Long Arm of Institutional Power 
  • Spatial analysis of food insecurity and obesity by area-level deprivation in children in early years settings in England. 
  • Systems science and childhood obesity: a systematic review and new directions. 
  • Texting Motivational Interviewing: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Motivational Interviewing Text Messages Designed to Augment Childhood Obesity Treatment. 
  • The Childhood Obesity Data Initiative: A Case Study in Implementing Clinical-Community Infrastructure Enhancements to Support Health Services Research and Public Health. 
  • The Greenlight Plus Trial: Comparative effectiveness of a health information technology intervention vs. health communication intervention in primary care offices to prevent childhood obesity. 
  • The Pediatric Obesity Microbiome and Metabolism Study (POMMS): Methods, Baseline Data, and Early Insights. 
  • The Role of Childhood Asthma in Obesity Development: A Nationwide US Multicohort Study. 
  • The School Food Environment and Obesity Prevention: Progress Over the Last Decade. 
  • The clinical treatment of childhood obesity. 
  • The influence of fathers on children's physical activity: A review of the literature from 2009 to 2015. 
  • The prevalence and validity of high, biologically implausible values of weight, height, and BMI among 8.8 million children. 
  • The relationship between acculturation and infant feeding styles in a Latino population. 
  • Traffic-related environmental factors and childhood obesity: A systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Trajectories of Obesity and Overweight Rates Among Survivors of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. 
  • Transforming Obesity Prevention for CHILDren (TOPCHILD) Collaboration: protocol for a systematic review with individual participant data meta-analysis of behavioural interventions for the prevention of early childhood obesity. 
  • Translating knowledge into action for child obesity treatment in partnership with Parks and Recreation: study protocol for a hybrid type II trial. 
  • Translational toxicology: a developmental focus for integrated research strategies. 
  • Unpacking the behavioural components and delivery features of early childhood obesity prevention interventions in the TOPCHILD Collaboration: a systematic review and intervention coding protocol. 
  • Urban Park Development and Pediatric Obesity Rates: A Quasi-Experiment Using Electronic Health Record Data. 
  • Use of a Mobile Lifestyle Intervention App as an Early Intervention for Adolescents With Obesity: Single-Cohort Study. 
  • Validity of the WHO cutoffs for biologically implausible values of weight, height, and BMI in children and adolescents in NHANES from 1999 through 2012. 
  • Weight Management without Stigma or Harm: A Roundtable Discussion with Childhood Obesity Experts. 
  • Weight change in pediatric TennCare recipients referred to a commercial weight loss program. 
  • Weight-Related Behaviors of Children with Obesity during the COVID-19 Pandemic. 
  • Weight-based teasing in youth: Associations with metabolic and inflammatory markers. 
  • Weight-related quality of life and temperament as predictors and moderators of outcomes among treatment-seeking, low-income, ethnically diverse children with obesity. 
  • What Can Be Learned from Existing Investigations of Weight-Related Practices and Policies with the Potential to Impact Disparities in US Child-Care Settings? A Narrative Review and Call for Surveillance and Evaluation Efforts. 
  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults. 
  • β-Cell Function Over Time in Adolescents With New Type 2 Diabetes and Obese Adolescents Without Diabetes. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Doshi, Ruchi Srivastava, Medical Instructor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Kay, Melissa, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health
  • Lane, Hannah Grace, Medical Instructor in the Department of Population Health Sciences, Duke Cancer Institute
  • Nelson, Martha, Physician Assistant, Family Medicine and Community Health, Physician Assistant Program
  • Page, Laura Caitlin, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Endocrinology