Childhood Obesity

Article	Citations
Dietary Patterns and Childhood Obesity Risk: A Systematic Review	137
Tracking of Obesity in Childhood into Adulthood: Effects on Body Mass Index and Fat Mass Index at Age 50	64
Complexity and Stigma of Pediatric Obesity	53
Overweight and Obesity in Children Are Associated with an Abundance of Firmicutes and Reduction of Bifidobacterium in Their Gastrointestinal Microbiota	50
Weight-Related Behaviors of Children with Obesity during the COVID-19 Pandemic	50
COVID-19 and Nutrition: The Need for Initiatives to Promote Healthy Eating and Prevent Obesity in Childhood	39
Latent Class Analysis of Lifestyle Risk Factors and Association with Overweight and/or Obesity in Children and Adolescents: Systematic Review	36
Efficacy of Clinic-Based Telehealth vs. Face-to-Face Interventions for Obesity Treatment in Children and Adolescents in the United States and Canada: A Systematic Review	30
Internalized Weight Bias, Teasing, and Self-Esteem in Children with Overweight or Obesity	28
Metformin Therapy Reduces Obesity Indices in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials	25
School Gardening Activities Aimed at Obesity Prevention Improve Body Mass Index and Waist Circumference Parameters in School-Aged Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	25
Childhood Obesity Evidence Base Project: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of a New Taxonomy of Intervention Components to Improve Weight Status in Children 2–5 Years of Age, 2005–2019	22
Impact of a Gardening and Physical Activity Intervention in Title 1 Schools: The TGEG Study	19
Influence of Grandparental Child Care on Childhood Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	18
“I Feel Like Less of a Mom”: Experiences of Weight Stigma by Association among Mothers of Children with Overweight and Obesity	17
Gut Bacterial Families Are Associated with Body Composition and Metabolic Risk Markers in School-Aged Children in Rural Mexico	16
Addressing Structural Racism Is Critical for Ameliorating the Childhood Obesity Epidemic in Black Youth	15
The Influence of Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet among Children and Their Parents in Relation to Childhood Overweight/Obesity: A Cross-Sectional Study in Greece	15
Identifying Key Determinants of Childhood Obesity: A Narrative Review of Machine Learning Studies	14
What Change in Body Mass Index Is Required to Improve Cardiovascular Outcomes in Childhood and Adolescent Obesity through Lifestyle Interventions: A Meta-Regression	13
A Media Literacy-Based Nutrition Program Fosters Parent–Child Food Marketing Discussions, Improves Home Food Environment, and Youth Consumption of Fruits and Vegetables	13
The Effectiveness of a Blended In-Person and Online Family-Based Childhood Obesity Management Program	13
Alarming Trends in Severe Obesity in Chinese Children from 1991 to 2015	13
Adolescent Exposure to Weight Loss Imagery on Instagram: A Content Analysis of “Top” Images	13
Feasibility of Targeting Hispanic Fathers and Children in an Obesity Intervention: Papás Saludables Niños Saludables	12

Observations of Maternal Feeding Practices and Styles and Young Children's Obesity Risk: A Longitudinal Study of Hispanic Mothers with Low Incomes	12
Changes in Weight-Related Health Behaviors and Social Determinants of Health among Youth with Overweight/Obesity during the COVID-19 Pandemic	12
Starting Early Program Impacts on Feeding at Infant 10 Months Age: A Randomized Controlled Trial	11
Effectiveness of a Weight Loss Program Using Digital Health in Adolescents and Preadolescents	11
Incorrect Analyses of Cluster-Randomized Trials that Do Not Take Clustering and Nesting into Account Likely Lead to p-Values that Are Too Small	11
Food Insecurity Influences Weight Trajectory in Children with Obesity	10
Sleep during Infancy and Associations with Childhood Body Composition: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis	10
Are There Inter-Individual Differences in Fat Mass and Percent Body Fat as a Result of Aerobic Exercise Training in Overweight and Obese Children and Adolescents? A Meta-Analytic Perspective	10
A Healthy Start: National Trends in Child Care Regulations and Uptake of Obesity Prevention Standards (2010–2018)	10
Food Insecurity and Obesity in US Adolescents: A Population-Based Analysis	10
Clustering Patterns of Physical Fitness, Physical Activity, Sedentary, and Dietary Behavior among School Children	9
Relationship between Obesity and Iron Deficiency in Healthy Adolescents	9
Predictors of Engagement in a Pediatric Weight Management Clinic after Referral	9
Changes in the Health-Related Quality of Life and Weight Status of Children with Overweight or Obesity Aged 7 to 13 Years after Participating in a 10-Week Lifestyle Intervention	9
Breastfeeding Associations with Childhood Obesity and Body Composition: Findings from a Racially Diverse Maternal–Child Cohort	9
Behavioral Weight Loss Intervention Preferences of Adolescents with Overweight/Obesity	9
Weight Gain during the COVID-19 Pandemic in a High-Risk Cohort of Children in San Francisco, CA	9
Let's Not Just Dismiss the Weight Watchers Kurbo App	8
Evolution of a Coalition Network during a Whole-of-Community Intervention to Prevent Early Childhood Obesity	8
Longitudinal Assessment of Sleep Trajectories during Early Childhood and Their Association with Obesity	8
The Relation of Adiposity Rebound to Subsequent BMI in a Large Electronic Health Record Database	8
Weight Status, Medication Use, and Recreational Activities of Treatment-Naïve Transgender Youth	8
Modifiable Early Childhood Risk Factors for Obesity at Age Four Years	8
Childhood Obesity Evidence Base Project: Methods for Taxonomy Development for Application in Taxonomic Meta-Analysis	7
Utilization Trends and Disparities in Adolescent Bariatric Surgery in the United States 2009–2017	7
Physical Activity and Screen Time Practices of Family Child Care Providers: Do They Meet Best Practice Guidelines?	7
How Important is Motor Competence for Healthy Weight Status across Adolescence?	7
Associations of Neighborhood Safety and Collective Efficacy with Dietary Intake among Preschool-Aged Children and Mothers	7
Can a Behavioral Weight-Loss Intervention Change Adolescents' Food Addiction Severity?	7
The Impact of a Multipronged Intervention to Increase School Lunch Participation among Secondary School Students in an Urban Public School District	7
Associations between Obesity and Adverse Childhood Experiences in the United States	7
The Impact of Parental Diabetes on the Prevalence of Childhood Obesity	7
Associations between Bottle-Feeding during Infancy and Obesity at Age 6 Years Are Mediated by Greater Infancy Weight Gain	6
Cross-Sectional Associations of Built and Social Neighborhood Environment Variables with Body Mass Index in a Large Sample of Urban Predominantly African American Children	6
JOIN for ME: Testing a Scalable Weight Control Intervention for Adolescents	6
Family Encouragement of Healthy Eating Predicts Child Dietary Intake and Weight Loss in Family-Based Behavioral Weight-Loss Treatment	6
Design and Approach of the Healthy Weight Clinic Pediatric Weight Management Intervention Package and Implementation: Massachusetts-CORD 3.0	6
“We've Had to Build the Plane as We Flew It.”:Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on School-Based Weight Management Interventions	6
Sleep, Food Insecurity, and Weight Status: Findings from the Family Life, Activity, Sun, Health, and Eating Study	6
Muscle-to-Fat Ratio for Predicting Metabolic Syndrome Components in Children with Overweight and Obesity	6
Longitudinal Assessment of Childhood Dietary Patterns: Associations with Body Mass Index z-Score among Children in the Samoan Ola Tuputupua'e (Growing Up) Cohort	6
Maternal Gestational Diabetes and Early Childhood Obesity: A Retrospective Cohort Study	6
Gustatory Function Can Improve after Multimodal Lifestyle Intervention: A Longitudinal Observational Study in Pediatric Patients with Obesity	6
High Rates of Obesity at Presentation Persist into Survivorship across Childhood Cancer Types	6
Disparities in Nutrition Counseling at Pediatric Wellness Visits in South Carolina	5
Maternal Stress Moderates the Relationship of Food Insufficiency with Body Mass Index Trajectories from Childhood to Early Adulthood among U.S. Rural Youth	5
Obesity Risk Assessment Tool among 3–5 Year Olds: Validation with Biomarkers of Low-Grade Chronic Inflammation	5
Investigating the Relationship between Body Mass Index and Pain in the Spine in Children or Adolescents: A Systematic Review	5
Moving Pediatric Healthy Weight Interventions into Real-World Settings, Using Implementation Science to Address Access, Flexibility, and Sustainability	5
Parent Food-Related Behaviors and Family-Based Dietary and Activity Environments: Associations with BMI z-Scores in Low-Income Preschoolers	5

Maternal Chronic Hypertension Elevates the Risk for Long-Term Selected Endocrine and Metabolic Morbidity in the Offspring, Particularly Childhood Obesity	5
Association between Sleep Duration and Body Composition in Girls Ten to Eighteen Years of Age: A Population-Based Study	5
Promoting Sleep and Balanced Screen Time among School-Aged Children with Neurodevelopmental and Mental Health Disorders: A Parent Perspective	5
Economic Growth and Weight of Children and Adolescents in Urban Areas: A Panel Data Analysis on Twenty-Seven Provinces in China, 1985–2014	5
Planned Evaluation of the Healthy Weight Clinic Pediatric Weight Management and Implementation: Massachusetts-CORD 3.0	5
Childhood Obesity Evidence Base Project: A Rationale for Taxonomic versus Conventional Meta-Analysis	5
Effect of Coffee and Tea Consumption on Adolescent Weight Control: An Interventional Pilot Study	5
A Mixed-Methods Examination of Referral Processes to Clinic–Community Partnership Programs for the Treatment of Childhood Obesity	5
Topiramate for Weight Management in Children With Severe Obesity	5
Examining the Relationship between Infant Weight Status and Parent–Infant Interactions within a Food and Nonfood Context	4
Association between Eating Patterns and Excess Body Weight in Adolescents	4
Is It Time to Remove BMI Screening from School Settings?	4
User Characteristics and Parenting Practices Associated with Adolescents' Initial Use of a Lifestyle Behavior Modification Intervention	4
Childhood Obesity Can Be an “Island in the Stream”	4
Contribution of Hedonic Hunger and Binge Eating to Childhood Obesity	4
The Associations between Childhood Obesity, Academic Performance, and Perception of Teachers: From Kindergarten to Fifth Grade	4
Connections between Friendship Quality, Peer Competence, and Obesity in Early Childhood through Adolescence	4
Effects of Exercise on Resting Metabolic Rate in Adolescents with Overweight and Obesity	4
Maternal Sedentary Behavior and Physical Activity across Pregnancy and Early Childhood Growth	4
Efficacy of a Primary Care eHealth Obesity Treatment Pilot Intervention Developed for Vulnerable Pediatric Patients	4
How Do Interpersonal Relationships Affect Children's Weight Management? A Qualitative Analysis of Parents' Long-Term Perceptions after Obesity Treatment	4
Executive Functioning, Depressive Symptoms, and Intervention Engagement in a Sample of Adolescents Enrolled in a Weight Management Program	4
Packaging of a Pediatric Weight Management Intervention and Implementation Blueprint for Rural and Micropolitan Communities: The Nebraska CORD 3.0 Project	4
Parenting Styles and Their Associations With Children's Body Composition, Activity Patterns, Fitness, Diet, Health, and Academic Achievement	4
Longitudinal Association between Weight Status, Aerobic Capacity, Muscular Strength, and Endurance among New York City Youth, 2010–2017	4
Maternal Eating Behavior and Problematic Eating Behaviors of Children Undergoing Weight Loss Treatment: A Cluster Analysis	3
The Combined Effects of Social Determinants of Health on Childhood Overweight and Obesity	3
School-Based Secondary Obesity Prevention for Eight- to Twelve-Year-Olds: Results from the Students, Nurses, and Parents Seeking Healthy Options Together Randomized Trial	3
Randomized Controlled Trial of Healthy Harlem's Get Fit Program: An After-School Intervention for Childhood Overweight and Obesity in the Harlem Children's Zone	3
Fat Distribution among Children Born Extremely Low Birth Weight and Very Low Birth Weight: A Cohort Study	3
Managing Excessive Weight Gain in Children <2 Years of Age: Interviews with Primary Care Providers	3
Obesity in Early Childhood: Examining the Relationship among Demographic, Behavioral, Nutritional, and Socioeconomic Factors	3
Associations of Percent Body Fat and Motor Skill Development in Preschool-Aged Children: National Youth Fitness Survey	3
Acceptability of Hospital-Based Pediatric Weight Management Services among Patients and Families: A Narrative Synthesis	3
Effects of Weight and Pain on Physical Activity: Insights from the Lived Experiences of Youth with Co-Occurring Chronic Pain and Obesity	3
The Mediating Effect of Sleep Duration on the Association between Food Insecurity and Childhood Obesity	3
Prediction of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease by Anthropometric Indices and Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis in Children	3
Antenatal Fetal Size and Obesity in Five-Year-Old Children in a Large Cohort Created by Data Linkage	3
How Many US Children and Adolescents with Overweight and Obesity Could Improve Their Percent Body Fat by Exercising?: Meta-Analytic Based Estimates	3
Parenting Stress, Child Weight-Related Behaviors, and Child Weight Status	3
Limiting Television to Reduce Childhood Obesity: Cost-Effectiveness of Five Population Strategies	3
The Urgency of Expanding Access to Effective Treatment for Childhood Obesity	3
Association of Trunk/Leg Fat Mass Ratio with Low-Density Lipoproteins-Cholesterol and Triglycerides Concentration in Children and Adolescents: A Cross-Sectional, Retrospective Study	3
Families Chose In-Person Visits over Telehealth for Pediatric Weight Management during the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Parent-Reported Personality and Weight Transitions across Adolescence	3
Obesogenic Behaviors of Rural Children on School and Nonschool Days	3
Association of Obesity and Body Fat Percentage with Pubertal State in Six- to Nine-Year-Old Chinese Females	3
Real-World Experience of the Efficacy and Safety of Phentermine Use in Adolescents: A Case Series	3
Cross-Sectional Relationship between Regular Bedtime and Weight Status and Obesity-Related Behaviors among Preschool and Elementary School Children: TX CORD Study	3
“Fat but Fit” Paradox and Cardiometabolic Risk in Children: The Role of Physical Activity	3
Sex Differences in the Association between Household Chaos and Body Mass Index z-Score in Low-Income Toddlers	3
A Type III Hybrid Effectiveness–Implementation Pilot Trial Testing Dissemination and Implementation Strategies for a Pediatric Weight Management Intervention: The Nebraska Childhood Obesity Research D	3
Changes in High Weight-for-Length among Infants Enrolled in Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children during 2010–2018	3
Variability in How Canadian Pediatric Weight Management Clinics Deliver Care: Evidence from the CANadian Pediatric Weight Management Registry	3
The “Fat but Fit” Paradigm from a Children's Health-Related Quality of Life Perspective	3
Response to: Comment About Statistical Analysis of a Cluster-Randomized Trial About Clustering and Nesting (DOI: 10.1089/chi.2019.0142)	2
Sociodemographic Variation in Children's Health Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Packaging and Scaling the Stanford Pediatric Weight Control Program: A Family-Based, Group, Behavioral Weight Management Program for Children with Obesity and Their Families: Background, Rationale, an	2
Kids N Fitness Junior: Outcomes of an Evidence-Based Adapted Weight Management Program for Children Ages Three–Seven Years	2
Association between Home Environment in Infancy and Child Movement Behaviors	2
Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis and Other Child, Family, and Community Risk Factors for Obesity among Children and Adolescents Aged 10–17 Years in the United States: A Mediation Analysis	2
Probiotic Use in Children and Adolescents with Overweight or Obesity: A Scoping Review	2
Are Students Paid to Market Sugar-Sweetened Beverages to Peers? A Review of University Pouring Rights Contracts	2
Interplay between Prepregnancy Body Mass Index, Early Childhood Negative Temperament, and Slowness in Eating on Early Childhood Rapid Weight Gain	2
“We Feel Like We Are in It Alone”: A Mixed-Methods Study of Pediatric Primary Care Barriers for Weight Management	2
Preventing Obesity in 2–5-Year Olds: A Pathway to Advancing Intervention Research	2
Trends and Persistent Disparities in Child Obesity During the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Could Celiac Disease and Overweight/Obesity Coexist in School-Aged Children and Adolescents? A Systematic Review	2
Social Determinants of Health and Body Mass Index in American Indian/Alaska Native Children	2
Effectiveness of a Scalable mHealth Intervention for Children With Overweight and Obesity	2
Associations Between Household Frequency of Cooking Dinner and Ultraprocessed Food Consumption and Dietary Quality Among US Children and Adolescents	2
Adiposity Mediates the Association of Objectively Measured Physical Activity with Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Children	2
Setting the Stage for Reimbursable Pediatric Healthy Weight Programs	2
Patterns of Food Parenting Practices Regarding Fruit and Vegetables among Parent–Adolescent Dyads	2
Managing Obesity in Young Children: A Multiple Methods Study Assessing Feasibility, Acceptability, and Implementation of a Multicomponent, Family-Based Intervention	2
Protective Effect of Prenatal Social Support on the Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity in Low-Income Hispanic Families	2
Assessing Parents' Communication of Weight and Weight Management from Clinic to Home	2
Sedentary Behavior and Obesity in Youth According to Meeting Physical Activity Guidelines: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2003–2006	2
Personal Social Networks and Adiposity in Adolescents: A Feasibility Study	2
Empowerment Approaches in Childhood Weight Management: A Systematic Review	2

Relationship Between Childhood Obesity and Autism Spectrum Disorder Varies by Child's Age and Parents' Weight Status in a Sample of Sibling Dyads	2
Behavioral, Environmental, and Demographic Factors Associated with Objectively Measured Physical Activity in Infants	2
Cross-Site Process Evaluation Results for the Early Childhood Education Center Setting: CORD Study	2
Is There a Role for Self-Referral in Pediatric Weight Management?	2
Implementation of a Scalable Family-Based Behavioral Treatment for Childhood Obesity Delivered through Primary Care Clinics: Description of the Missouri Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration Study	2
Translating Family-Based Behavioral Treatment for Childhood Obesity into a User-Friendly Digital Package for Delivery to Low-Income Families through Primary Care Partnerships: The MO-CORD Study	2
Changes in Child Weight, Behaviors, and Family Dynamics during Parental Participation in a Medical Weight Management Program: A Longitudinal Uncontrolled Pilot Study	2
Childhood Obesity Evidence Base Project: Building Translational Capacity through Meta-Analytic Methods	2
Mealtime Environment and Feeding Practices in Urban Family Child Care Homes in the United States	2
Association between Body Mass Index Status and Childhood Asthma Control	2
Accuracy and Precision of Opportunistic Measures of Body Composition from the Tanita DC-430U	2
Body Mass Index Mediates the Association between Growth Trajectories and Cardiometabolic Risk in Children	2
BMI Data Collection and Communication Practices in a Multistate Sample of Head Start Programs	2
Growing Healthy Together: A Randomized Clinical Trial Using Parent Mentors for Early Childhood Obesity in Low-Income, Latino Families	2
Omega-3 Use for the Treatment of Hypertriglyceridemia, Low High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Levels, and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Children with Obesity	2
Four-Year Accelerometry Outcomes from a Cluster Randomized Whole of Systems Trial of Prevention Strategies for Childhood Obesity	2
Patient Retention in Pediatric Weight Management Programs in the United States: Analyses of Data from the Pediatrics Obesity Weight Evaluation Registry	2
Clinical Performance of Transient Elastography With Comparison to Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Ultrasound, and Biopsy in Children and Adolescents With Known or Suspected Fatty Liver Diseas	2
Healthy Schoolhouse 2.0 Strides toward Equity in Obesity Prevention	2
Association Between Motor Competence and Percentage of Body Fat in Late Childhood: Comparing Proficiency in Fundamental Motor Skills and Advanced Movement Skills	2