Pediatric Obesity

Papers
(The TQCC of Pediatric Obesity is 5. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Child temperament is associated with energy intake and its day‐to‐day variability among preschoolers—Results from a cross‐sectional DAGIS study37
Seasonal variability in body mass index change among children enrolled in the Pediatric Obesity Weight Evaluation Registry: A step in the right direction34
Contemporary screen time usage among children 9–10‐years‐old is associated with higher body mass index percentile at 1‐year follow‐up: A prospective cohort study32
Performance of mid‐upper arm circumference to identify adolescents with obesity and metabolic syndrome: NHANES 2011–2018 analysis28
Evaluating appetite/satiety hormones and eating behaviours as predictors of weight loss maintenance with GLP‐1RA therapy in adolescents with severe obesity27
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Cost‐effectiveness analysis of individual‐level obesity treatment in paediatrics: A scoping review21
Body mass index and visual impairment in Israeli adolescents: A nationwide study21
Weight status change from birth to childhood and high carotid intima‐media thickness in childhood21
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. children21
Changes in obesity and lifestyle behaviours during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Chinese adolescents: A longitudinal analysis from 2019 to 202020
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Genetic risk score prediction of leg fat and insulin sensitivity differs by race/ethnicity in early pubertal children18
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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 Cohort17
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Application of a composite scoring protocol to identify factors that contribute to the risk of overweight and obesity in Irish children16
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Associations between maternal metabolic parameters during pregnancy and fetal and child growth trajectories from 20 weeks' gestation to 5 years of age: Secondary analysis from the ROLO long15
Trends in U.S. adolescent physical activity and obesity: A 20‐year age‐period‐cohort analysis14
Online retail nudges to help parents with lower‐income choose healthy beverages for their children: A randomized clinical trial14
High levels of FSH before puberty are associated with increased risk of metabolic syndrome during pubertal transition13
Development of genome‐wide association studies on childhood obesity and its indicators: A scoping review and enrichment analysis13
The effects of experimentally manipulated social status and subjective social status on physical activity among Hispanic adolescents: An RCT13
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Voluntary healthier kids' meals policies: Are caregivers choosing kids' meals and healthier items for their child?12
Maternal pre‐pregnancy body mass index and offspring with overweight/obesity at preschool age: The possible role of epigenome‐wideDNAmethylation changes in cord blood12
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Early‐life exposure to tobacco and childhood adiposity: Identifying windows of susceptibility11
Short‐term complications and post‐acute sequelae in hospitalized paediatric patients with COVID‐19 and obesity: A multicenter cohort study11
Associations between eating behaviours and cardiometabolic risk among adolescents in the Health Outcomes and Measures of the Environment study10
Lifestyle‐based subtypes of childhood obesity and their association with cardiometabolic factors: A cluster analysis10
Psychiatric comorbidity associated with weight status in 9 to 10 year old children10
Meal timing, nutritional status and diet quality in a group of Spanish children10
Do adverse childhood experiences and genetic obesity risk interact in relation to body mass index in young adulthood? Findings from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health10
Does the severity of obesity influence bone density, geometry and strength in adolescents?10
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Effectiveness of pharmacological interventions for managing obesity in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta‐analysis framed using minimal important difference estimates based on 9
Leptin receptor expression in blood mononuclear cells of lactating women is associated with infant body weight: Potential role as a molecular biomarker9
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Associations of childhood physical activity and screen time with cardiometabolic health in preteens who were born to mothers with previous macrosomic delivery: Findings from the ROLO longit9
Effectiveness of surgical interventions for managing obesity in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta‐analysis framed using minimal important difference estimates based on GRADE<9
Review of paediatric obesity and non‐alcoholic fatty liver disease—A focus on emerging non‐pharmacologic treatment strategies9
The effects of duration of any breastfeeding on body mass index in Australian children: Exploration of health, economic and equity impacts9
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Sedentary time has a stronger impact on metabolic health than moderate to vigorous physical activity in adolescents with obesity: a cross‐sectional analysis of the Beta‐JUDO study9
Longitudinal associations between diet quality, sedentary behaviours and physical activity and risk of overweight and obesity in preschool children: The ToyBox‐study9
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Effectiveness of an adapted physical activity intervention for weight management in adolescents with intellectual disability: A randomized controlled trial8
Effectiveness and predictors of weight loss response to phentermine plus lifestyle modifications among youth in a paediatric weight management clinical setting8
Associations of 24‐h movement behaviour with overweight and obesity among school‐aged children and adolescents in Pakistan: An empirical cross‐sectional study8
Modifiable early life exposures associated with adiposity and obesity in 3‐year old children born to mothers with obesity8
Children's activity and diet behaviours in the summer holidays versus school year8
Immune profile of adipose tissue from youth with obesity and asthma8
Cord blood adiponectin and leptin concentrations in monochorionic twins with selective intrauterine growth restriction and their associations with childhood growth trajectories8
Prevalence of low and high BMI during the first 3 years of life: using New Zealand national electronic health data8
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Impact of the Play Active policy intervention on early childhood educator's sedentary behaviour‐related practices, psychosocial influences and meeting policy recommendations: Results from a pragmatic 8
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A 24‐month metformin treatment study of children with obesity: Changes in circulating GDF‐15 and associations with changes in body weight and visceral fat8
Weight‐based cybervictimization: Implications for adolescent health8
Perceived barriers in family‐based behavioural treatment of paediatric obesity – Results from theFABOstudy8
Prospective associations between leukocyte telomere length and adiposity in childhood8
Association of gut microbiota and glucose metabolism in children with disparate degrees of adiposity8
Is family meal frequency associated with obesity in children and adolescents? A cross‐sectional study including 155 451 participants from 43 countries7
Foetal hyperinsulinaemia and increased fat mass correlate negatively with circulating fatty acid concentrations in neonates of gestational diabetic mothers with dietary‐controlled glycaemia7
Hair cortisol concentrations are associated with greater adiposity in late adolescence amongst non‐Hispanic White individuals7
The effects of obesity on longitudinal ventricular and atrial strain in a rural population of Spanish children and adolescents, evaluated by a new strain software7
Biopsychosocial predictors of rapid weight gain from birth to 6 months7
Maternal BMI in the preconception period, and association with child zBMI growth rates7
Acute simulated weight gain might not increase the energy cost of walking in adolescents with obesity7
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Association between bone age maturity and childhood adiposity7
Electronic phenotypes to distinguish clinician attention to high body mass index, hypertension, lipid disorders, fatty liver and diabetes in pediatric primary care: Diagnostic accuracy of electronic p7
Impact of the motivational interviewing for childhood obesity treatment: The Obemat2.0 randomized clinical trial7
Opinions from the experts: Experiences of adolescents with severe obesity participating in meal replacement therapy7
Prevalence of early childhood obesity in Ireland: Differences over time, between sexes and across child growth criteria7
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Prospective physical fitness status and development of cardiometabolic risk in children according to body fat and lifestyle behaviours: The IDEFICS study7
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The metabolic load‐capacity model and cardiometabolic health in children and youth with obesity6
Sleep‐disordered breathing and cardiometabolic and inflammatory markers in children with overweight/obesity: The role of cardiorespiratory fitness6
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Does an obesogenic family environment moderate the association between sports participation and body composition in children? The ENERGY project6
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Longitudinal associations between executive control and body mass index across childhood6
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The cortisol stress response in youth with overweight and obesity: Influence of psychosocial variables6
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Sibling absence and body mass index: From adolescence to adulthood6
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Quantifying the overall impact of an early childhood multi‐behavioural lifestyle intervention6
Impact of COVID‐19 pandemic on physical health amongst children: Difference‐in‐differences analyses of nationwide school health checkup database6
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The effects of a lifestyle intervention (the HealthyMoms app) during pregnancy on infant body composition: Secondary outcome analysis from a randomized controlled trial5
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Effect of a physical activity and healthy eating lifestyle intervention in pregnancy on fetal growth trajectories: The DALI randomised controlled trial5
An improved algorithm to harmonize child overweight and obesity prevalence rates5
Update on pediatric metabolic and bariatric surgery5
MicroRNAs as the promising markers of comorbidities in childhood obesity—A systematic review5
Gut microbiota and microbial metabolites are associated with body composition in 5‐year‐old children: A cross‐sectional study in the Gen3G cohort5
Weighing in on COVID‐19: The impact of the pandemic on children and adolescents with obesity participating in a weight management program5
Afternoon school shift is associated with increased risk of overweight/obesity in 11–14‐year‐old females with early and intermediate chronotype5
Is store density associated with sugar‐sweetened beverages consumption and overweight or obesity in Mexican adolescents?5
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)5
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 5
Exercise dose on hepatic fat and cardiovascular health in adolescents with excess of adiposity5
Metabolomic profiling of stool of two‐year old children from the INSIGHT study reveals links between butyrate and child weight outcomes5
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Early‐life body mass index and the risk of six cardiovascular diseases: A Mendelian Randomization study5
Examining differences in children and adolescents' exposure to food and beverage marketing in Canada by sociodemographic characteristics: Findings from the International Food Policy Study Youth Survey5
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Mendelian randomization analysis identified causal Association of Childhood Obesity with adult major depressive disorder5
Longitudinal assessment of brain structure and behaviour in youth with rapid weight gain: Potential contributing causes and consequences5
Impact of COVID‐19 pandemic on children overweight in Japan in 20205
The association of breastfeeding duration on metabolic syndrome among children and adolescents, stratified by birth weight for gestational age5
Exposure to maternal fuels during pregnancy and offspring hepatic fat in early childhood: The healthy start study5
Correction to “Unintentional error in formula preparation and its simulated impact on infant weight and adiposity”5
Body composition, metabolic syndrome, and lifestyle in treatment‐naïve gender‐diverse youth in Israel5
Relationship between motivations and dietary behaviours within parent–adolescent dyads: Application of actor–partner interdependence models5
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