Pediatric Obesity

Papers
(The median citation count of Pediatric Obesity is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Cost‐effectiveness analysis of individual‐level obesity treatment in paediatrics: A scoping review108
Effectiveness of an adapted physical activity intervention for weight management in adolescents with intellectual disability: A randomized controlled trial42
Associations between eating behaviours and cardiometabolic risk among adolescents in the Health Outcomes and Measures of the Environment study38
High levels of FSH before puberty are associated with increased risk of metabolic syndrome during pubertal transition35
The impact of community‐based childhood obesity prevention interventions in Australia by socio‐economic position: An individual participant data meta‐analysis33
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Early‐life exposure to tobacco and childhood adiposity: Identifying windows of susceptibility32
Weight‐based cybervictimization: Implications for adolescent health30
Mendelian randomization analysis identified causal Association of Childhood Obesity with adult major depressive disorder29
Association of gut microbiota and glucose metabolism in children with disparate degrees of adiposity29
An improved algorithm to harmonize child overweight and obesity prevalence rates25
Correction to “Unintentional error in formula preparation and its simulated impact on infant weight and adiposity”25
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Mediterranean diet and obesity polygenic risk interaction on adiposity in European children: The IDEFICS/I.Family Study24
Use of person‐centred language among scientific research focused on childhood obesity23
Impact of COVID‐19 pandemic on children overweight in Japan in 202023
Acute simulated weight gain might not increase the energy cost of walking in adolescents with obesity22
Association between bone age maturity and childhood adiposity20
Gut microbiota and microbial metabolites are associated with body composition in 5‐year‐old children: A cross‐sectional study in the Gen3G cohort20
Afternoon school shift is associated with increased risk of overweight/obesity in 11–14‐year‐old females with early and intermediate chronotype20
Identifying Children With Obesity at High Risk for Metabolic Syndrome: Sensitivity and Specificity of the Monocyte/HDL Index19
An addiction‐based digital weight loss intervention: A multi‐centre randomized controlled trial18
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Overweight/obesity is associated with problematic social media use: Addressing problematic social media use could help reduce overweight/obesity among adolescents17
Associations of maternal and infant metabolite profiles with foetal growth and the odds of adverse birth outcomes16
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Physical activity, screen time and body composition in 13‐year‐old adolescents: The Generation R Study16
Neurological‐related proteomic profiling in plasma of children with metabolic healthy and unhealthy overweight/obesity15
Child and mother characteristics associated with 6‐month weight gain for infants and toddlers during 6 to 36 months15
Assessment and impact of paediatric internalized weight bias: A systematic review15
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Bioactive compounds in mothers milk affecting offspring outcomes: A narrative review14
Family structure in relation to body mass index and metabolic score in European children and adolescents14
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Changes in nonnutritive sweetener intake in a cohort of preschoolers after the implementation of Chile's Law of Food Labelling and Advertising14
Childhood obesity within the lens of racism14
Prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors according to Life's Essential 8 in children and adolescents during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A systematic review and meta‐analysis including 1 526 17313
Association of insufficient sleep and skipping breakfast with overweight/obesity in children and adolescents: Findings from a cross‐sectional provincial surveillance project in Jiangsu13
Early childhood executive control modulates negative affectivity's role in increasing adolescent body mass index trajectories13
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Exploring the association between internalized weight bias and mental health among Canadian adolescents13
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FirstStep2Health: A cluster randomised trial to promote healthy behaviours and prevent obesity amongst low‐income preschoolers12
Associations of radiologic characteristics of the neonatal hypothalamus with early life adiposity gain12
Visceral fat and arterial stiffness in youth with healthy weight, obesity, and type 2 diabetes12
Strategies to promote responsive bottle‐feeding in WIC predict less frequent use of food to soothe and healthier weight status for infants with negative temperaments11
Time spent on social media use and BMI z‐score: A cross‐sectional explanatory pathway analysis of 10798 14‐year‐old boys and girls11
Evaluating the impact of community interventions on childhood obesity in populations living in low‐income households in Los Angeles: A simulation study11
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Lifestyle patterns in European preschoolers: Associations with socio‐demographic factors and body mass index10
The use of submaximal parameters in the assessment of exercise capacity in children with obesity10
Prevalence of overweight and obesity and associated demographic and health factors in India: Findings from Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey (CNNS)10
Infant intakes of human milk branched chain amino acids are negatively associated with infant growth and influenced by maternal body mass index10
Anthropometry and Body Composition in Childhood: Follow‐Up of a Randomised, Double‐Blinded Controlled Trial With a Modified, Low‐Protein Infant Formula During Infancy10
Identifying elevated child weight from 3 to 24 months: Early transitions into nonparental care and to solid foods10
The effectiveness of multidisciplinary weight loss interventions is associated with initial cardiorespiratory fitness in adolescents with obesity10
Oxidized high‐density lipoprotein and low‐density lipoprotein in adolescents with obesity and metabolic dysfunction‐associated steatotic liver disease10
Adolescent experiences of weight‐related communication: Sociodemographic differences and the role of parents10
Modified body mass index z‐scores in children in New York City during the COVID‐19 pandemic10
Association between excessive screen time and steatotic liver disease in adolescents: Findings from the 2017–2018 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey10
Recent trends in overweight and obesity in adolescents aged 12 to 15 years across 21 countries10
Adolescents' chronotype and its association with obesity‐related outcomes: The EHDLA study10
Impact of theCOVID‐19 pandemic on elementary schoolers' physical activity, sleep, screen time and diet: A quasi‐experimental interrupted time series study10
Development of a prediction protocol for the screening of metabolic associated fatty liver disease in children with overweight or obesity9
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The role of lifestyle in the impact of constant phthalate exposure on overweight and obesity: A longitudinal cohort study in China9
Effects of telephone support or short message service on body mass index, eating and screen time behaviours of children age 2 years: A 3‐arm randomized controlled trial9
Racial Disparities in Paediatric Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery: An MBSAQIP Analysis9
Association of intestinal microbiota and its metabolite markers with excess weight in Chinese children and adolescents9
Nutrition transition's latest stage: Are ultra‐processed food increases in low‐ and middle‐income countries dooming our preschoolers' diets and future health?9
Association between sugar‐free beverage intake and childhood obesity among Chinese children and adolescents9
Body mass index and visual impairment in Israeli adolescents: A nationwide study8
Impact ofCOVID‐19 on childhood obesity: Data from a paediatric weight management trial8
South‐to‐South parental migration patterns and excess weight among children: Insights from a national cross‐sectional study in Colombia8
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Household food insecurity and childhood obesity/overweight among children with special healthcare needs: Results from a nationally representative sample of 10–17 years old U.S. children8
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The predictive utility of the in utero exposome for childhood adiposity in independent and integrated frameworks8
Associations of cord blood leukocyte telomere length with adiposity growth from infancy to adolescence8
Maternal pre‐pregnancy body mass index and offspring with overweight/obesity at preschool age: The possible role of epigenome‐wideDNAmethylation changes in cord blood8
Variation in ultra‐processed food consumption from 6 to 15 years, body weight and body composition at 15 years of age at The Pelotas 2004 Birth Cohort8
Application of a composite scoring protocol to identify factors that contribute to the risk of overweight and obesity in Irish children8
Child ADHD and autistic traits, eating behaviours and weight: A population‐based study8
Physical activity and adiposity in preschool children: The Barwon Infant Study8
Cost‐Effectiveness Analysis of an Intensive Lifestyle Intervention Versus Usual Care for Latino Youth With Prediabetes8
Trends in U.S. adolescent physical activity and obesity: A 20‐year age‐period‐cohort analysis8
Clinical burden of hyperphagia, obesity and health outcomes in paediatric individuals with Bardet‐Biedl syndrome: A CRIBBS data analysis8
A 24‐month metformin treatment study of children with obesity: Changes in circulating GDF‐15 and associations with changes in body weight and visceral fat7
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The association of changes in body mass index and metabolic parameters between adults with overweight or obesity and their children in a family‐based randomized trial (DiOGenes)7
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Performance of mid‐upper arm circumference to identify adolescents with obesity and metabolic syndrome: NHANES 2011–2018 analysis7
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Lifestyle‐based subtypes of childhood obesity and their association with cardiometabolic factors: A cluster analysis7
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Early life social conditions and adverse experiences are associated with childhood BMI and perceived overeating7
Prevalence of low and high BMI during the first 3 years of life: using New Zealand national electronic health data7
A nation‐wide analysis of socioeconomic and geographical disparities in the prevalence of obesity and excess weight in children and adolescents in Spain: Results from the ENE‐COVID study6
Early‐life body mass index and the risk of six cardiovascular diseases: A Mendelian Randomization study6
Community and School Programs, Policies and Environments Related to Child Dietary Intake:The Healthy Communities Study6
Associations between healthy eating index and anthropometric outcomes in multiethnic elementary‐aged children6
Assessment of executive functions and physical activity in girls and boys with normal weight, overweight and obesity6
Effectiveness and predictors of weight loss response to phentermine plus lifestyle modifications among youth in a paediatric weight management clinical setting6
Television watching during meals is associated with higher ultra‐processed food consumption and higher free sugar intake in childhood6
Youth prediabetes and type 2 diabetes: Risk factors and prevalence of dysglycaemia6
The joint associations of high birth weight and not having siblings with metabolic obesity phenotype among school‐aged children and adolescents: A National Survey in China6
Factors that shape dietary intake in children in the context of increasing risk for obesity development6
The association of breastfeeding duration on metabolic syndrome among children and adolescents, stratified by birth weight for gestational age6
COVID‐19‐related lockdowns and changes in overweight and obesity, movement behaviours, diet quality, and health‐related quality of life among regional Australian primary school children: A 6
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Serum zonulin as an index of glucose dysregulation in children and adolescents with overweight and obesity5
Circadian variation of serum leptin and adipose tissue changes in children5
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Food addiction and its impact on weight status in children and adolescents: The mediating role of responsive eating pattern5
Prediction of resting energy expenditure for adolescents with severe obesity: A multi‐centre analysis5
Adverse childhood experiences and appetitive traits in adolescence: A prospective cohort study5
Delay discounting and nucleus accumbens functional connectivity are related to weight status in adolescents from the ABCD study5
Parental education and neighbourhood socioeconomic status in the prediction of childhood overweight: A multilevel analysis5
Considerations for the design and conduct of pediatric obesity pharmacotherapy clinical trials: Proceedings of expert roundtable meetings5
Satisfaction with a meal kit delivery program and feasibility of a phase I trial in the intervening in food insecurity to reduce and mitigate (InFoRM) childhood obesity study5
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Food insecurity is associated with higher food responsiveness in low‐income children: The moderating role of parent stress and family functioning5
Effect of Indo‐Mediterranean diet versus calorie‐restricted diet in children with non‐alcoholic fatty liver disease: A pilot randomized control trial5
Associations of sleep with food cravings and loss‐of‐control eating in youth: An ecological momentary assessment study5
Differential associations between television viewing, computer use, and adiposity by age, gender, and race/ethnicity in United States youth: A cross‐sectionalNHANESanalysis5
Association between calcium intake from different food sources during childhood and cardiometabolic risk on adolescence: The Generation XXI birth cohort5
Attrition rate and predictors of a monitoring mHealth application in adolescents with obesity5
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Association between maternal and infant screen time with child growth and development: A longitudinal study5
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Childhood sleep and obesity risk: A prospective cohort study of 10 000 Swedish children5
Leptin resistance in children with in utero exposure to maternal obesity and gestational diabetes5
Impact of prenatal exposure to delta 9‐tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabidiol on birth size and postnatal growth trajectories5
Prenatal weight and regional body composition trajectories and neonatal body composition: The NICHD Foetal Growth Studies5
Differences across four major US urban areas in metabolic syndrome in the Hispanic Community Children's Health Study/Study of Latino Youth (SOL Youth)5
Association of total and pancreatic serum amylase enzymatic activity with insulin resistance and the glucose and insulin responses to oral starch test in Mexican children5
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Weight status of children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder: A cross‐sectional analysis of primary care electronic medical records and linked health administrative datasets in Ontario, Can4
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Prevalence of food and beverage brands in “made‐for‐kids” child‐influencer YouTube videos: 2019–20204
Population trajectories and age‐dependent associations of obesity risk factors with body mass index from childhood to adolescence across European regions: A two‐cohort study4
The impact of hypothetical early life interventions on rapid weight gain during infancy and body mass index at 5 and 8 years in Norway: The Norwegian Mother, Father, and Child Cohort Study (MoBa<4
Association between body mass index at birth and neonatal health outcomes in preterm infants: A retrospective analysis4
What can stop the ‘pester power’? A longitudinal study on the impact of children's audiovisual media consumption on media‐motivated food purchase requests4
Age‐dependent association of obesity with COVID‐19 severity in paediatric patients4
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Problematic social media use and overweight/obesity: explanatory pathway analysis of 124 667 in‐school adolescents in 39 high‐income countries4
Association between gestational weight gain and risk of overweight at 3 years old: The Japan Environment and Children's Study4
Relationship between chrononutrition and cardiometabolic risk in prepubertal children with and without excess weight4
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Relationships examined: Parent and child readiness to change and sociodemographic characteristics in family based weight loss treatment4
Anthropometric models to estimate fat mass at 3 days, 15 and 54 weeks4
Early life factors and hippocampal functional connectivity in children with overweight/obesity4
The association of ultra‐processed food intake with adolescent metabolic dysfunction‐associated steatotic liver disease in the NHANES4
Potential cost‐effectiveness of e‐health interventions for treating overweight and obesity in Australian adolescents4
Mediation by parent health literacy and behaviour of socioeconomic inequality in child overweight4
Longitudinal associations between sleep and weight status in infants and toddlers4
Evaluating appetite/satiety hormones and eating behaviours as predictors of weight loss maintenance with GLP‐1RA therapy in adolescents with severe obesity3
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Relationship between motivations and dietary behaviours within parent–adolescent dyads: Application of actor–partner interdependence models3
Possible prediction of obesity‐related liver disease in children and adolescents using indices of body composition3
Associations between parent and adolescent weight outcomes within two parent approaches to family‐based adolescent obesity treatment: Secondary analyses from the TEENS+ pilot trial3
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Is family meal frequency associated with obesity in children and adolescents? A cross‐sectional study including 155 451 participants from 43 countries3
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Short‐term complications and post‐acute sequelae in hospitalized paediatric patients with COVID‐19 and obesity: A multicenter cohort study3
Changes in obesity and lifestyle behaviours during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Chinese adolescents: A longitudinal analysis from 2019 to 20203
The effects of a lifestyle intervention (the HealthyMoms app) during pregnancy on infant body composition: Secondary outcome analysis from a randomized controlled trial3
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Impact of the motivational interviewing for childhood obesity treatment: The Obemat2.0 randomized clinical trial3
Effects of PNPLA3, TM6SF2 and SAMM50 on the development and severity of non‐alcoholic fatty liver disease in children3
Sleep‐disordered breathing and cardiometabolic and inflammatory markers in children with overweight/obesity: The role of cardiorespiratory fitness3
Genetic associations with consumption of palatable foods in the absence of hunger in response to food cues in children3
A survey of stakeholders' perceived importance of health indicators and subgroup analyses to inform the Canadian clinical practice guideline for managing paediatric obesity3
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The effects of duration of any breastfeeding on body mass index in Australian children: Exploration of health, economic and equity impacts3
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Review of paediatric obesity and non‐alcoholic fatty liver disease—A focus on emerging non‐pharmacologic treatment strategies3
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NET‐Works paediatric obesity prevention trial: 66 month outcomes3
The long‐term effects of primary school‐based obesity prevention interventions in children: A systematic review and meta‐analysis3
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Psychiatric comorbidity associated with weight status in 9 to 10 year old children3
Sibling absence and body mass index: From adolescence to adulthood3
Neighbourhood socio‐economic environment predicts adiposity and obesity risk in children under two2
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Motivations for engaging in or avoiding conversations about weight: Adolescent and parent perspectives2
Blenderized watermelon consumption decreases body mass index, body mass index percentile, body fat and HbA1c in children with overweight or obesity2
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Effects of pictorial warnings on parents' purchases and perceptions of sugar‐sweetened beverage categories2
Pharmacological interventions for the management of children and adolescents living with obesity—An update of a Cochrane systematic review with meta‐analyses2
Investigating the association between parental educational status and offspring obesity risk using the Japan Environment and Children's Study2
Negative familial weight talk and weight bias internalization in a US sample of children and adolescents2
Trends in school‐neighbourhood inequalities and youth obesity: Repeated cross‐sectional analyses of the public schools in the state of California2
Circulating miRNAs in girls with abdominal obesity: miR‐221‐3p as a biomarker of response to weight loss interventions2
Associations between maternal obesity and offspring gut microbiome in the first year of life2
Central obesity in school‐aged children increases the likelihood of developing paediatric autoimmune diseases2
Cost‐effectiveness of scaling up a whole‐of‐community intervention: The Romp & Chomp early childhood obesity prevention intervention2
The role of parents in adolescent obesity treatment: Results of the TEENS+ randomized clinical pilot trial2
Different protein intake in the first year and its effects on adiposity rebound and obesity throughout childhood: 11 years follow‐up of a randomized controlled trial2
Metabolomics reveals sex‐specific pathways associated with changes in adiposity and muscle mass in a cohort of Mexican adolescents2
Correction to “Mediators of the association between childhood body mass index and educational attainment: Analysis of a UK prospective cohort study”2
Higher body mass index after intrapartum antibiotic exposure in children persists over 10‐years2
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Longitudinal associations between early child weight gain, parent feeding, child self‐regulation, and later child body mass index2
Diabetes screening outcomes in youth presenting for paediatric weight management: A report of the Paediatric Obesity Weight Evaluation Registry2
Controlled attenuation parameter in the diagnosis of different liver steatosis groups in children with obesity2
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Body fat differences among US youth aged 8–19 by race and Hispanic origin, 2011–20182
Variant reclassification over time decreases the level of diagnostic uncertainty in monogenic obesity: Experience from two centres2
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Acceleration in BMI gain following COVID‐19 restrictions. A longitudinal study with 7‐ to 10‐year‐old primary school children2
Changes in insulin resistance, body mass index and degree of obesity among junior high school students: A comparison before and after the outbreak of the COVID‐19 pandemic2
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The longitudinal association between neighbourhood quality and cardiovascular risk factors among youth receiving obesity treatment2
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Effect of a care‐coordinated responsive parenting intervention on obesogenic risk behaviours among mother–infant dyads enrolled in WIC2
Recent advances in the epidemiology of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in children2
Associations of adiponectin concentrations from birth until late adolescence with insulin resistance2
Racial and ethnic disparities in obesity trends among US children and adolescents aged 2–19, 2011–20232
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Mediators of the association between childhood body mass index and educational attainment: Analysis of a UK prospective cohort study2
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Academic performance and psychosocial functioning in European schoolchildren: The role of cardiorespiratory fitness and weight status2
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