Childhood Obesity

Article	Citations
Complexity and Stigma of Pediatric Obesity	77
Weight-Related Behaviors of Children with Obesity during the COVID-19 Pandemic	53
Latent Class Analysis of Lifestyle Risk Factors and Association with Overweight and/or Obesity in Children and Adolescents: Systematic Review	45
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	32
Internalized Weight Bias, Teasing, and Self-Esteem in Children with Overweight or Obesity	32
Identifying Key Determinants of Childhood Obesity: A Narrative Review of Machine Learning Studies	22
“I Feel Like Less of a Mom”: Experiences of Weight Stigma by Association among Mothers of Children with Overweight and Obesity	22
Addressing Structural Racism Is Critical for Ameliorating the Childhood Obesity Epidemic in Black Youth	18
Changes in Weight-Related Health Behaviors and Social Determinants of Health among Youth with Overweight/Obesity during the COVID-19 Pandemic	17
Muscle-to-Fat Ratio for Predicting Metabolic Syndrome Components in Children with Overweight and Obesity	17
Adolescent Exposure to Weight Loss Imagery on Instagram: A Content Analysis of “Top” Images	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
The Effectiveness of a Blended In-Person and Online Family-Based Childhood Obesity Management Program	14
Food Insecurity and Obesity in US Adolescents: A Population-Based Analysis	14
Effectiveness of a Weight Loss Program Using Digital Health in Adolescents and Preadolescents	14
Utilization Trends and Disparities in Adolescent Bariatric Surgery in the United States 2009–2017	14
Weight Status, Medication Use, and Recreational Activities of Treatment-Naïve Transgender Youth	13
Breastfeeding Associations with Childhood Obesity and Body Composition: Findings from a Racially Diverse Maternal–Child Cohort	13
Observations of Maternal Feeding Practices and Styles and Young Children's Obesity Risk: A Longitudinal Study of Hispanic Mothers with Low Incomes	13
Clustering Patterns of Physical Fitness, Physical Activity, Sedentary, and Dietary Behavior among School Children	12
Behavioral Weight Loss Intervention Preferences of Adolescents with Overweight/Obesity	12
Weight Gain during the COVID-19 Pandemic in a High-Risk Cohort of Children in San Francisco, CA	12
Food Insecurity Influences Weight Trajectory in Children with Obesity	11
Evolution of a Coalition Network during a Whole-of-Community Intervention to Prevent Early Childhood Obesity	10
A Healthy Start: National Trends in Child Care Regulations and Uptake of Obesity Prevention Standards (2010–2018)	10

Modifiable Early Childhood Risk Factors for Obesity at Age Four Years	9
Associations between Obesity and Adverse Childhood Experiences in the United States	9
Topiramate for Weight Management in Children With Severe Obesity	9
How Important is Motor Competence for Healthy Weight Status across Adolescence?	9
Effect of Coffee and Tea Consumption on Adolescent Weight Control: An Interventional Pilot Study	8
The Relation of Adiposity Rebound to Subsequent BMI in a Large Electronic Health Record Database	8
Let's Not Just Dismiss the Weight Watchers Kurbo App	8
Can a Behavioral Weight-Loss Intervention Change Adolescents' Food Addiction Severity?	8
Maternal Gestational Diabetes and Early Childhood Obesity: A Retrospective Cohort Study	8
Associations of Neighborhood Safety and Collective Efficacy with Dietary Intake among Preschool-Aged Children and Mothers	8
Gustatory Function Can Improve after Multimodal Lifestyle Intervention: A Longitudinal Observational Study in Pediatric Patients with Obesity	7
Physical Activity and Screen Time Practices of Family Child Care Providers: Do They Meet Best Practice Guidelines?	7
“We've Had to Build the Plane as We Flew It.”:Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on School-Based Weight Management Interventions	7
Sleep, Food Insecurity, and Weight Status: Findings from the Family Life, Activity, Sun, Health, and Eating Study	7
Parenting Styles and Their Associations With Children's Body Composition, Activity Patterns, Fitness, Diet, Health, and Academic Achievement	7
Risk of Overweight and Obesity in Children and Adolescents With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	6
Examining the Relationship between Infant Weight Status and Parent–Infant Interactions within a Food and Nonfood Context	6
The Combined Effects of Social Determinants of Health on Childhood Overweight and Obesity	6
Could Celiac Disease and Overweight/Obesity Coexist in School-Aged Children and Adolescents? A Systematic Review	6
How Do Interpersonal Relationships Affect Children's Weight Management? A Qualitative Analysis of Parents' Long-Term Perceptions after Obesity Treatment	6
Real-World Experience of the Efficacy and Safety of Phentermine Use in Adolescents: A Case Series	6
Design and Approach of the Healthy Weight Clinic Pediatric Weight Management Intervention Package and Implementation: Massachusetts-CORD 3.0	6
Maternal Stress Moderates the Relationship of Food Insufficiency with Body Mass Index Trajectories from Childhood to Early Adulthood among U.S. Rural Youth	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
Associations of Percent Body Fat and Motor Skill Development in Preschool-Aged Children: National Youth Fitness Survey	5
Contribution of Hedonic Hunger and Binge Eating to Childhood Obesity	5
School-Based Secondary Obesity Prevention for Eight- to Twelve-Year-Olds: Results from the Students, Nurses, and Parents Seeking Healthy Options Together Randomized Trial	5
The Urgency of Expanding Access to Effective Treatment for Childhood Obesity	5
Effects of Exercise on Resting Metabolic Rate in Adolescents with Overweight and Obesity	5
Social Determinants of Health and Body Mass Index in American Indian/Alaska Native Children	5
Moving Pediatric Healthy Weight Interventions into Real-World Settings, Using Implementation Science to Address Access, Flexibility, and Sustainability	5
Efficacy of a Primary Care eHealth Obesity Treatment Pilot Intervention Developed for Vulnerable Pediatric Patients	5
A Mixed-Methods Examination of Referral Processes to Clinic–Community Partnership Programs for the Treatment of Childhood Obesity	5
Investigating the Relationship between Body Mass Index and Pain in the Spine in Children or Adolescents: A Systematic Review	5
Parental Reasons for Engaging in or Avoiding Weight Talk With Children	5
Planned Evaluation of the Healthy Weight Clinic Pediatric Weight Management and Implementation: Massachusetts-CORD 3.0	5
Behavioral, Environmental, and Demographic Factors Associated with Objectively Measured Physical Activity in Infants	5
Longitudinal Association between Weight Status, Aerobic Capacity, Muscular Strength, and Endurance among New York City Youth, 2010–2017	5
Promoting Sleep and Balanced Screen Time among School-Aged Children with Neurodevelopmental and Mental Health Disorders: A Parent Perspective	5
Packaging of a Pediatric Weight Management Intervention and Implementation Blueprint for Rural and Micropolitan Communities: The Nebraska CORD 3.0 Project	5
Variability in How Canadian Pediatric Weight Management Clinics Deliver Care: Evidence from the CANadian Pediatric Weight Management Registry	5
Relationship between “Blue Space” Proximity and Children's Weight Status, Health Behaviors, and Health-Related Quality of Life among a Sample of Regional Victorian Primary School Children	4
Executive Functioning, Depressive Symptoms, and Intervention Engagement in a Sample of Adolescents Enrolled in a Weight Management Program	4
Are Students Paid to Market Sugar-Sweetened Beverages to Peers? A Review of University Pouring Rights Contracts	4
Influences of Child Temperament and Household Chaos on Preschoolers' Emotional Eating	4
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	4
Effects of Weight and Pain on Physical Activity: Insights from the Lived Experiences of Youth with Co-Occurring Chronic Pain and Obesity	4
Prediction of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease by Anthropometric Indices and Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis in Children	4
Association of Obesity and Body Fat Percentage with Pubertal State in Six- to Nine-Year-Old Chinese Females	4
Limiting Television to Reduce Childhood Obesity: Cost-Effectiveness of Five Population Strategies	4

Patient Retention in Pediatric Weight Management Programs in the United States: Analyses of Data from the Pediatrics Obesity Weight Evaluation Registry	4
Maternal Sedentary Behavior and Physical Activity across Pregnancy and Early Childhood Growth	4
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	4
Antenatal Fetal Size and Obesity in Five-Year-Old Children in a Large Cohort Created by Data Linkage	4
Association between Eating Patterns and Excess Body Weight in Adolescents	4
Is It Time to Remove BMI Screening from School Settings?	4
Childhood Obesity Can Be an “Island in the Stream”	4
Lifestyle Behaviors and Cardiometabolic Health in Middle-School Children	3
Healthy Schoolhouse 2.0 Strides toward Equity in Obesity Prevention	3
Mealtime Environment and Feeding Practices in Urban Family Child Care Homes in the United States	3
Managing Obesity in Young Children: A Multiple Methods Study Assessing Feasibility, Acceptability, and Implementation of a Multicomponent, Family-Based Intervention	3
BMI Data Collection and Communication Practices in a Multistate Sample of Head Start Programs	3
Parenting Stress, Child Weight-Related Behaviors, and Child Weight Status	3
Protective Effect of Prenatal Social Support on the Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity in Low-Income Hispanic Families	3
Obesity in Early Childhood: Examining the Relationship among Demographic, Behavioral, Nutritional, and Socioeconomic Factors	3
Coordination Between Primary Care and Women, Infants, and Children to Prevent Obesity for Infants from Low-Income Families: A Pragmatic Randomized Clinical Trial	3
Families Chose In-Person Visits over Telehealth for Pediatric Weight Management during the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Age of Bottle Cessation and BMI-for-Age Percentile among Children Aged Thirty-Six Months Participating in WIC	3
Associations Between Household Frequency of Cooking Dinner and Ultraprocessed Food Consumption and Dietary Quality Among US Children and Adolescents	3
Setting the Stage for Reimbursable Pediatric Healthy Weight Programs	3
How Many US Children and Adolescents with Overweight and Obesity Could Improve Their Percent Body Fat by Exercising?: Meta-Analytic Based Estimates	3
Competitive Food and Beverage Policies and Obesity among Middle School Students: Variability by Urbanicity in California	3
Accuracy and Precision of Opportunistic Measures of Body Composition from the Tanita DC-430U	3
The “Fat but Fit” Paradigm from a Children's Health-Related Quality of Life Perspective	3
Is There a Role for Self-Referral in Pediatric Weight Management?	3
The Mediating Effect of Sleep Duration on the Association between Food Insecurity and Childhood Obesity	3
Changes in High Weight-for-Length among Infants Enrolled in Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children during 2010–2018	3
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	3
Obesogenic Behaviors of Rural Children on School and Nonschool Days	3
Cross-Sectional Relationship between Regular Bedtime and Weight Status and Obesity-Related Behaviors among Preschool and Elementary School Children: TX CORD Study	3
An Assessment of the Relationship Between BMI and Children Undergoing Surgical Procedures: A Retrospective Study	3
“Fat but Fit” Paradox and Cardiometabolic Risk in Children: The Role of Physical Activity	3
Fat Distribution among Children Born Extremely Low Birth Weight and Very Low Birth Weight: A Cohort Study	3
Behavior Change Techniques That Prevent or Decrease Obesity in Youth With a Low Socioeconomic Status: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	3
Advanced Obesity Treatment Selection among Adolescents in a Pediatric Weight Management Program	3
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	3
What Do Health Professionals and Parents Want as Part of an Online Childhood Obesity Prevention Program?	2
Black Parents' Perceptions and Barriers to Limiting Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Among Young Children: A Social Cognitive Theory Application	2
Adiposity Mediates the Association of Objectively Measured Physical Activity with Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Children	2
Implementation of the JOIN for ME Program for Families from Low-Income Backgrounds: The Use of Theory-Driven Formative Evaluation: Rhode Island CORD 3.0	2
Rural Family Satisfaction With Telehealth Delivery of an Intervention for Pediatric Obesity and Associated Family Characteristics	2
Do Adolescents with Low Motor Competence Have Increased Risk for Overweight and Obesity?	2
Obesity Prevalence and Dietary Factors Among Preschool-Aged Head Start Children in Remote Alaska Native Communities: Baseline Data from the “Got Neqpiaq?” Study	2
Medicaid Expenditures among Children with Documented Obesity	2
Growing Healthy Together: A Randomized Clinical Trial Using Parent Mentors for Early Childhood Obesity in Low-Income, Latino Families	2
Empowerment Approaches in Childhood Weight Management: A Systematic Review	2
Adolescent Body Mass Index and Exposure to Peers with Overweight and Obesity: A Structural Equation Model Approach to Longitudinal Network Data	2
Parents as Agents of Change in Managing Pediatric Obesity: A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy versus Psychoeducation Interventions	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
Changes in Child Weight, Behaviors, and Family Dynamics during Parental Participation in a Medical Weight Management Program: A Longitudinal Uncontrolled Pilot Study	2
Kids N Fitness Junior: Outcomes of an Evidence-Based Adapted Weight Management Program for Children Ages Three–Seven Years	2
Protocol for the Rhode Island CORD 3.0 Study: Adapting, Testing, and Packaging the JOIN for ME Family-Based Childhood Obesity Program in Low-Income Communities	2
Perceptions of Weight Management: Interviews with Adolescents with Severe Obesity and Their Mothers	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
Short-Term Efficacy of a Childhood Obesity Prevention Program Designed to Pair Feeding Content With Nutrition Education	2
Trends and Persistent Disparities in Child Obesity During the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Interplay between Prepregnancy Body Mass Index, Early Childhood Negative Temperament, and Slowness in Eating on Early Childhood Rapid Weight Gain	2
Four-Year Accelerometry Outcomes from a Cluster Randomized Whole of Systems Trial of Prevention Strategies for Childhood Obesity	2
Association Between Motor Competence and Percentage of Body Fat in Late Childhood: Comparing Proficiency in Fundamental Motor Skills and Advanced Movement Skills	2
Latino Children's Obesity Risk Varies by Place of Birth: Findings from New York City Public School Youth, 2006–2017	2
Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Young Children with Obesity	2
Using Agent-Based Modeling to Extrapolate Community-Wide Impact from a Stakeholder-Driven Childhood Obesity Prevention Intervention: Shape Up Under 5	2
Association between Home Environment in Infancy and Child Movement Behaviors	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
Personal Social Networks and Adiposity in Adolescents: A Feasibility Study	2
“We Feel Like We Are in It Alone”: A Mixed-Methods Study of Pediatric Primary Care Barriers for Weight Management	2
Probiotic Use in Children and Adolescents with Overweight or Obesity: A Scoping Review	2
A Biodesign Approach to Designing, Packaging, and Scaling a Pediatric Weight Management Program: The Stanford CORD 3.0 Project	2
Retracted: Body Mass Index and Gut Microbiome: A Cluster-Randomized, Controlled, Pilot Feasibility Study	2
Relationship between Gestational Weight Gain Rate Trajectory and Overweight in Offspring at Three Years of Age	2
Implementing Prevention Plus with Underserved Families in an Integrated Primary Care Setting	1
Drawing on Cultural Traditions to Improve Cardiorespiratory Fitness with South Asian Children: A Feasibility Study	1
Early Lifestyle Determinants of Adiposity Trajectories from Childhood into Late Adolescence	1
Weight-Based Teasing and Metabolic Syndrome Components among Adolescent Military Dependents at Risk for Adult Obesity	1
Effectiveness of a Scalable mHealth Intervention for Children With Overweight and Obesity	1
Independent and Interactive Associations of Subjective and Objective Socioeconomic Status With Body Composition and Parent-Reported Hyperphagia Among Children	1
Isolation in a Sea of “Experts”: Identifying the Parental Struggles Caring for Children With Early-Onset Obesity	1
Parental Perceptions of Medication Use for the Treatment of Obesity in Youth	1
“Som la Pera,” a School-Based, Peer-Led Social Marketing Intervention to Engage Spanish Adolescents in a Healthy Lifestyle: A Parallel-Cluster Randomized Controlled Study	1
Food and Beverage Product Appearances in Educational, Child-Targeted YouTube Videos	1

Childhood Obesity and Health Care Utilization: Empirical Evidence from Austrian Administrative Data	1
Exploratory Decision Trees to Predict Obesity Intervention Response among Hispanic American Youth	1
Body Mass Index Increased at a Large Midwestern Children's Hospital During the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Body Size Misperception and Dissatisfaction in Elementary School Children	1
Body Mass Index Mediates the Association between Growth Trajectories and Cardiometabolic Risk in Children	1
The Relationship Between Experiences of Pain Among Youth With Obesity and Health-Related Quality of Life: The Role of Functional Limitation, Sleep, and Depressive Symptoms	1
Systematic Review of General Parenting Intervention Impacts on Child Weight as a Secondary Outcome	1
A Cohort Study Comparing Pediatric Patients with Overweight and Obesity in the Military Health System	1
Parental Influences on Physical Activity and Screen Time among Preschool Children from Low-Income Families in Brazil	1
Changes in Adiposity without Impacting Bone Health in 9- to 12-Year-Old Children with Overweight and Obesity after a One-Year Family-Centered Lifestyle Behavior Intervention	1
Keys to Achieving Clinically Important Weight Loss: Perceptions of Responders and Nonresponders in the Clinic and Community Approaches to Healthy Weight Trial	1
Relationship Between Obesity and Youth Athletes' Physical Activity and Exercise-Related Cardiac Symptoms	1
Body Weight at Age Four Years and Readiness to Start School: A Prospective Cohort Study	1
The Effect of an Obesity Prevention Intervention Among Specific Subpopulations: A Heterogeneity of Treatment Effect Analysis of the Greenlight Trial	1
Patient-Reported Outcomes to Describe Global Health and Family Relationships in Pediatric Weight Management	1
The Implementation and Five-Year Evolution of a Childhood Healthy Weight Program: Making a Health Care–Community Partnership Work	1
Family Factors Affecting the Transition of Children from Normal Weight to Obesity in Mexico	1
COVID Pandemic and Childhood Obesity: A Return to Normal is Too Low a Bar	1
Sociodemographic Variation in Children's Health Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
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	1
The Influence of Social Determinants of Health and Structural Racism on Childhood Obesity	1
Wearable Devices Beyond Activity Trackers in Youth With Obesity: Summary of Options	1
Should We “Wait and See”?: Change in Weight Status Among US Adolescents in the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study	1
Incorporating Yoga into a Pediatric Weight Management Program: A Pilot Study	1
Prevalence and Severity of Chronic Conditions Among Adolescents With Obesity	1
Multilevel Factors Associated With Obesity Among South Korean Adolescents Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Understanding Accelerated Summer Body Mass Index Gain by Tracking Changes in Children's Height, Weight, and Body Mass Index Throughout the Year	1
BMI Metrics Are Poor Predictors of Pediatric Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Severity	1
Acute Daily Stress, Daily Food Consumption, and the Moderating Effect of Disordered Eating among Adolescents with Overweight/Obesity	1
Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Outcomes of a Father-Focused Childhood Obesity Prevention Program for Low-Income Families with Preschool-Age Children	1
Adolescent Bariatric Surgery: A Parent and Patient's Perspective on the Journey to an Effective Treatment Option	1
Characterization of a Regional Childhood Obesity Prevention and Treatment System	1
Assessment of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Social Determinants of Health: A Survey of Practices in Pediatric Weight Management Programs	1
Do Individual Characteristics and Social Support Increase Children's Use of an MHealth Intervention? Findings from the Evaluation of a Behavior Change MHealth App, Aim2Be	1
Influence of the Home Environment on Physical Activity Behaviors in African American Youth	1
Associations Between Neighborhood Opportunity and Indicators of Physical Fitness for New York City Public School Youth	1
Preferred Child Obesity Message Frames and Their Perceived Strength among State Policymakers	1
The Many Names of Fatty Liver Disease: Strengths and Limitations of Metabolic (Dysfunction)-Associated Fatty Liver Disease	1
Rates of Body Mass Index Increase in Children During the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Posture of Adolescent and the Relationship with Body Mass Index, Sex, and Physical Activity	1
Free Summer Day Camp to Address Childhood Obesity: Is There Demand?	1
Accelerometer-Based Physical Activity and Shape and Weight Concerns Among Youth With Overweight and Obesity: A Pilot Exploratory Ecological Momentary Assessment Study	1
Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Program and Participant Factors That Explain Success in a Micropolitan Pediatric Weight Management Intervention	1
How Home Child Care Providers Purchase, Prepare, and Serve Healthy Foods: In-Depth Interviews with Child and Adult Care Food Program Participants	1
Adolescent Bariatric Surgery: The Need for Tailored Educational Materials	1
Weight Management without Stigma or Harm: A Roundtable Discussion with Childhood Obesity Experts	1
Addressing Obesity Care in Children With Chronic Health Conditions	1