International Journal of Obesity

Papers
(The TQCC of International Journal of Obesity is 9. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Neuroimaging and modulation in obesity and diabetes research: 10th anniversary meeting123
Can we measure food intake in humans?115
Work- and mental health-related events and body mass index trajectories during the Covid-19 lockdown. Evidence from the lifelines cohort study in the Netherlands105
Correction to: Neuroimaging and modulation in obesity and diabetes research: 10th anniversary meeting76
Correction to: Response to Comment on “Gestational body weight gain and risk of low birth weight or macrosomia in women of Japan: a nationwide cohort study”64
The Universal Eating Monitor (UEM): objective assessment of food intake behavior in the laboratory setting61
Genetic variations in adiponectin levels and dietary patterns on metabolic health among children with normal weight versus obesity: the BCAMS study56
Changes in abdominal subcutaneous adipose tissue thickness associate with disease and anthropometric factors54
Major adverse cardiovascular events among patients with type-2 diabetes, a nationwide cohort study comparing primary metabolic and bariatric surgery to GLP-1 receptor agonist treatment51
Obesity and the cost of living crisis48
Effect of physical activity intervention on weight change in rural older Chinese: a cluster randomized controlled trial47
Homeostasis and food craving in obesity: a functional MRI study47
A higher proportion of small adipocytes is associated with increased visceral and ectopic lipid accumulation during weight gain in response to overfeeding in men46
Early childhood adversity and body mass index in childhood and adolescence: linking registry data on adversities with school health records of 53,401 children from Copenhagen46
Emergence of the adolescent obesity epidemic in the United States: five-decade visualization with humanoid avatars44
Causality of abdominal obesity on cognition: a trans-ethnic Mendelian randomization study42
Association between adiposity distribution and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, adipokines, interleukins and plasminogen activator inhibitor-142
Study on weight loss outcomes after bariatric surgery to determine a metric least influenced by preoperative BMI41
Weighted burden analysis in 200,000 exome-sequenced subjects characterises rare variant effects on BMI38
Associations between maternal pre-pregnancy BMI and mean diffusivity of the hippocampus and amygdala in infants37
The armadillo-repeat containing X-linked protein 3, ARMCX3, is a negative regulator of the browning of adipose tissue associated with obesity36
Adiposity and cancer: a Mendelian randomization analysis in the UK biobank35
Deoxyguanosine kinase mutation F180S is associated with a lean phenotype in mice34
Obesity and metabolic syndrome in adults with a 22q11.2 microdeletion34
Correction to: Growth differentiating factor-15 and adiposity in young adults: The African-PREDICT study34
Third trimester cortisol is positively associated with gestational weight gain in pregnant women with class one obesity34
Four weeks treatment with the GLP-1 receptor analogue liraglutide lowers liver fat and concomitantly circulating glucagon in individuals with overweight33
What internet- and mobile-based interventions are currently available for adults with overweight or obesity experiencing symptoms of depression? A systematic review31
Locking ourselves into the past: the DentalSlim Diet Control device and an incomplete understanding of obesity31
What is the evidence regarding the safety of new obesity pharmacotherapies30
Association of plasma chemerin with all-cause and disease-specific mortality – results from a population-based study30
Association of body mass index and weight change with pneumonia mortality in a Japanese population: Japan Public Health Center-based Prospective Study29
Associations of childhood BMI, general and visceral fat mass with metabolite profiles at school-age29
Long-term fasting-induced parasympathetic and sympathetic autonomic nervous system modulation in a subgroup of the GENESIS study29
Are associations of adulthood overweight and obesity with all-cause mortality, cardiovascular disease, and obesity-related cancer modified by comparative body weight at age 10 years in the UK Biobank 28
Response to Comment on “Gestational body weight gain and risk of low birth weight or macrosomia in women of Japan: a nationwide cohort study”28
Association of novel metabolic status with asymptomatic intracranial arterial stenosis: A cross-sectional study28
Obesity affects brain cortex gene expression in an APOE genotype and sex dependent manner28
Maternal gestational diabetes and childhood adiposity risk from 6 to 8 years of age27
Excess BMI in early adolescence adversely impacts maturating functional circuits supporting high-level cognition and their structural correlates27
The endoplasmic reticulum stress protein GRP94 modulates cathepsin L activity in M2 macrophages in conditions of obesity-associated inflammation and contributes to their pro-inflammatory profile26
Adipocyte GPX4 protects against inflammation, hepatic insulin resistance and metabolic dysregulation26
Time-of-day dependent effect of proanthocyanidins on adipose tissue metabolism in rats with diet-induced obesity26
Associations of body size and composition with subclinical cardiac dysfunction in older individuals: the cardiovascular health study26
A meta-analysis on the changes of BMI during an inpatient treatment with different follow-up lengths (short and long term) compared with the outpatient phase in obese patients26
The associations of maternal and paternal obesity with latent patterns of offspring BMI development between 7 and 17 years of age: pooled analyses of cohorts born in 1958 and 2001 in the United Kingdo26
Body mass index and waist circumference trajectories across the life course and birth cohorts, 1996–2015 Malaysia: sex and ethnicity matter26
The association between the duration and degree of adiposity and appetitive trait trajectory profiles from childhood into early adolescence – results from the Generation XXI cohort25
A national evaluation of geographic accessibility and provider availability of obesity medicine diplomates in the United States between 2011 and 201925
Cardiometabolic risk profile among children with migrant parents and role of parental education: the IDEFICS/I.Family cohort24
Filling a gap in care: addressing obesity in transgender and gender diverse patients24
Abstracts from the 8th UK Congress on Obesity 202324
Maternal obesity promotes impaired renal autophagic process and kidney injury in male offspring24
Obesity preclinical elective: a qualitative thematic analysis of student feedback23
Ian Macdonald retires as Editor-In-Chief23
Bioelectrical phase angle is no adequate biomarker of inflammatory status22
A behavioral weight-loss intervention, but not metformin, decreases a marker of gut barrier permeability: results from the SPIRIT randomized trial22
Endothelial and exercise vasodilation are reduced in postmenopausal females with obesity versus lean and overweight22
Does interpregnancy BMI change affect the risk of complications in the second pregnancy? Analysis of pooled data from Aberdeen, Finland and Malta22
Phthalate and phthalate replacement concentrations in relationship to adiposity in a multi-racial cohort of children22
Prenatal oxidative stress and rapid infant weight gain22
Time-varying association between body mass index and all-cause mortality in patients with hypertension22
Use of proton pump inhibitors after laparoscopic gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy: a nationwide register-based cohort study22
Phase angle as biomarker of inflammatory changes during very low-calorie ketogenic diet22
Targeting hypercoagulation to alleviate Alzheimer’s disease progression in metabolic syndrome21
Grandmaternal obesity in early pregnancy and risk of grandoffspring preterm birth: a nationwide three-generation study21
The acute effect of glucagon on components of energy balance and glucose homoeostasis in adults without diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis21
Improved walking energy efficiency might persist in presence of simulated full weight regain after multidisciplinary weight loss in adolescents with obesity: the POWELL study21
Credibility of ChatGPT in the assessment of obesity in type 2 diabetes according to the guidelines21
Obesity: a 100 year perspective21
Exploring the bidirectional associations of ADHD symptomatology, nutritional status, and body composition in childhood: evidence from a Brazilian Birth Cohort Study21
Correction: Body mass index and waist circumference trajectories across the life course and birth cohorts, 1996–2015 Malaysia: sex and ethnicity matter20
Obesity medications in patients with recurrent weight gain or suboptimal clinical response following bariatric surgery: a meta-analysis20
IGFBP-1 and IGF-I in relation to adiposity and mortality from midlife to old age in the Swedish Adoption/Twin Study of Aging20
Sex differences in adipose insulin resistance are linked to obesity, lipolysis and insulin receptor substrate 120
Role of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease and of its genetics on kidney function in childhood obesity20
A staged approach to address youth unresponsive to initial obesity intervention: a randomized clinical trial20
Association of adiposity evaluated by anthropometric and bioelectrical impedance analysis measures with cognitive performance in the ELSA-Brasil study20
Polysomnography in pre-operative screening for obstructive sleep apnea in patients undergoing bariatric surgery: a retrospective cohort study20
Seven-year trajectories of body weight, quality of life and comorbidities following Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy20
The incidence of cardiac arrhythmias during exercise stress testing: a focus on patients with severe obesity undergoing sleeve gastrectomy20
Steatotic liver disease associated with 2,4-dienoyl-CoA reductase 1 deficiency19
Metabolic interactions between organs in overweight and obesity using total-body positron emission tomography19
Association of weight loss with cardiovascular or all-cause mortality in patients with heart failure: A meta-analysis19
The moderating role of eating behaviour traits in the association between exposure to hot food takeaway outlets and body fatness19
Correction: Cost-effectiveness of bariatric surgery and non-surgical weight management programmes for adults with severe obesity: a decision analysis model19
Does menu calorie labelling cause or exacerbate eating disorders?19
Effects of obstructive sleep apnea on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in patients with obesity: a systematic review19
Dietary choline increases brown adipose tissue activation markers and improves cholesterol metabolism in female APOE*3-Leiden.CETP mice18
Lifestyle intervention in obese pregnancy and cardiac remodelling in 3-year olds: children of the UPBEAT RCT18
Correlation between body mass index and COVID-19 transmission risk18
U.S. weight trends: a longitudinal analysis of an NIH-partnered dataset18
Evaluating population attributable fractions of cardiovascular diseases in relation to 20-year body mass index; the ATTICA study (2002–2022)18
Gene expression associations with body mass index in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis18
Trends in insulin-like growth factor-1 levels after bariatric surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis17
Correlations and consistency of body composition measurement indicators and BMI: a systematic review17
Visceral-to-peripheral adiposity ratio: a critical determinant of sex and ethnic differences in cardiovascular risks among Asian Indians and African Creoles in Mauritius17
Higher intraindividual variability of body mass index is associated with elevated risk of COVID-19 related hospitalization and post-COVID conditions17
Global barriers to decision makers for prioritizing interventions for obesity17
Sex differences in central insulin action: Effect of intranasal insulin on neural food cue reactivity in adults with normal weight and overweight17
Enhancing obesity management in primary care: the role of registered dietitian nutritionists17
Fasting appetite-related gut hormone responses after weight loss induced by calorie restriction, exercise, or both in people with overweight or obesity: a meta‐analysis17
The association of overweight, obesity, and long-term obesity with SARS-CoV-2 infection: a meta-analysis of 9 population-based cohorts from the Netherlands Cohorts Consortium17
Composite variable bias: causal analysis of weight outcomes17
Neck circumference as a metabolic health marker among women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS): a systematic review and meta-analysis16
Bariatric surgery is associated with lower incidence of carpal tunnel syndrome16
Human adaptation response to obesity16
Epicardial adipose tissue thickness is associated with increased COVID-19 severity and mortality16
The essential role of primary care providers in obesity management16
Change in neighborhood socioeconomic status and childhood weight status and body composition from birth to adolescence16
Pre-pregnancy body mass index and adverse maternal and perinatal outcomes in twins: A population retrospective cohort study16
Weight-based discrimination in financial reward and punishment decision making: causal evidence using a novel experimental paradigm16
Pre-labor and post-labor cesarean delivery and early childhood adiposity in the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Cohort Study16
Association between the FAAH C385A variant (rs324420) and obesity-related traits: a systematic review16
Relationship of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D, obesity with new-onset obstructive sleep apnea16
Do lifestyle factors and quality of life differ in people with metabolically healthy and unhealthy obesity?16
Pathways linking BMI trajectories and mental health in an adult population-based cohort: role of emotional eating and body dissatisfaction16
Political voting in the United Kingdom 2019 general election and risk of living with obesity in a nationally representative sample15
Investigating relationships between post-prandial gut hormone responses and taste liking ratings prior to and following bariatric surgery: a pilot study15
Metabolic outcomes and safety of GLP-1 receptor agonists in children and adolescents with obesity: A systematic review and meta-analysis15
Physical activity and sedentary time across pregnancy and associations with neonatal weight, adiposity and cord blood parameters: a secondary analysis of the DALI study15
Prolonged latency of the gustatory evoked potentials for sucrose solution in subjects living with obesity compared with normal-weight subjects15
Maternal obesity and ancestry distance in influencing birth outcomes15
Causal effects of body composition on lifespan: Mendelian randomization analysis15
Non-nutritive sweetened beverages versus water after a 52-week weight management programme: a randomised controlled trial15
Mental health disorders in youth with overweight and obesity: does treatment of co-existing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder affect outcomes?15
Factors influencing patients to choose one obesity treatment over another: a qualitative study15
Childhood maltreatment, adulthood obesity and incident type 2 diabetes: a retrospective cohort study using UK Biobank15
Thyroid-stimulating hormone levels in euthyroid patients 8 years following bariatric surgery14
Body composition and mortality from middle to old age: a prospective cohort study from the UK Biobank14
A randomized controlled trial to reduce post-cessation weight gain14
Body composition, physical capacity, and immuno-metabolic profile in community-acquired pneumonia caused by COVID-19, influenza, and bacteria: a prospective cohort study14
Transcription factor CREB3 is a potent regulator of high-fat diet-induced obesity and energy metabolism14
Factors influencing traditional adiposity indicators and mammary adipocyte size in women with breast cancer14
The obesity paradox in younger adult patients with sepsis: analysis of the MIMIC-IV database14
Systematic literature review on the awareness of obesity in adults and children living with obesity, the general public and healthcare professionals14
Pannexin 3 deletion reduces fat accumulation and inflammation in a sex-specific manner14
The role of prenatal maternal sex steroid hormones in weight and adiposity at birth and growth trajectories during infancy14
The cardiovascular exercise response in children with overweight or obesity measured by cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging14
Technical report: an online international weight control registry to inform precision approaches to healthy weight management14
Change in abdominal obesity after colon cancer surgery – effects of left-sided and right-sided colonic resection13
Metabolic health, menopause, and physical activity—a 4-year follow-up study13
Cortisol/DHEA ratio in morbidly obese patients before and after bariatric surgery: Relation to metabolic parameters and cardiovascular performance13
Correction: The visceral adipose tissue bacterial microbiota provides a signature of obesity based on inferred metagenomic functions13
Childhood obesity and risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection13
Phase angle as an easy diagnostic tool for the nutritionist in the evaluation of inflammatory changes during the active stage of a very low-calorie ketogenic diet13
Thoracic adipose tissue contributes to severe virus infection of the lung13
Obesity and individual performance: the case of eSports13
Correction to: The capacity of differentiation of stromal vascular fraction cells into beige adipocytes is markedly reduced in subjects with overweight/obesity and insulin resistance: effect of genist13
Life course BMI trajectories from childhood to mid-adulthood are differentially associated with anxiety and depression outcomes in middle age13
Evidence for protein leverage on total energy intake, but not body mass index, in a large cohort of older adults13
The effect of height on estimates of the change in BMI-based prevalence of childhood obesity13
Geography and equity: expanding access to obesity medicine diplomate care13
Intersection of sepsis, atrial fibrillation, and severe obesity: a population-based analysis in the United States12
Subcutaneous adipose tissue expansion mechanisms are similar in early and late onset overweight/obesity12
Glucose metabolism disorder: a potential accomplice of SARS-CoV-212
Has the BMI had its day?12
Associations between body composition, fat distribution and metabolic consequences of excess adiposity with severe COVID-19 outcomes: observational study and Mendelian randomisation analysis12
Correction: Microbiome and pregnancy: focus on microbial dysbiosis coupled with maternal obesity12
Retraction Note: Obesity-associated gut microbiota is enriched in Lactobacillus reuteri and depleted in Bifidobacterium animalis and Methanobrevibacter smithii12
C/EBPZ modulates the differentiation and proliferation of preadipocytes12
The effectiveness of group-based, parent-only weight management interventions for children and the factors associated with outcomes: a systematic review12
Why do humans undergo an adiposity rebound? Exploring links with the energetic costs of brain development in childhood using MRI-based 4D measures of total cerebral blood flow12
Association between accelerometer-measured irregular sleep duration and longitudinal changes in body mass index in older adults12
Lack of fibro-inflammatory response in human mammary adipose tissue in obesity12
Metabolic abnormalities in the bone marrow cells of young offspring born to mothers with obesity12
Nationwide trends in prevalence of underweight, overweight, and obesity among people with disabilities in South Korea from 2008 to 201712
Endocrine regulation of metabolic crosstalk between liver and brown adipose tissue by natural active ingredients12
Tirzepatide outcompetes long-acting insulin in managing type 2 diabetes: a meta-analysis of three phase 3 randomized controlled trials12
Anti-obesity effects of chlorogenic acid and caffeine- lipid nanoparticles through PPAR-γ/C/EBP-ɑ pathways12
Serum vascular endothelial growth factor b and metabolic syndrome incidence in the population based cohort [email protected] study11
Lean in one way, in obesity another: effects of moderate exercise in brown adipose tissue of early overfed male Wistar rats11
Correction to: Trends in insulin-like growth factor-1 levels after bariatric surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis11
Human brain proteome-wide association study provides insights into the genetic components of protein abundance in obesity11
Acceptance, knowledge, and attitude of family physicians towards obesity as a chronic disease: a multinational cross-sectional study11
Comparing body composition between the sweet-liking phenotypes: experimental data, systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis11
Obesity during childhood is associated with higher cancer mortality rate during adulthood: the i3C Consortium11
Overweight and obesity are not associated with worse clinical outcomes in COVID-19 patients treated with fixed-dose 6 mg dexamethasone11
Incidence and risk factors of post-metabolic and bariatric surgery hypoglycemia: a systematic review11
Modifications of 24-h movement behaviors to prevent obesity in retirement: a natural experiment using compositional data analysis11
Correction: Mortality attributable to sugar sweetened beverages consumption in Mexico: an update11
The genetics of testosterone contributes to “femaleness/maleness” of cardiometabolic traits and type 2 diabetes11
American Indian Alaska Native (AIAN) adolescents and obesity: the influence of social determinants of health, mental health, and substance use11
Associations of fertility parameters with fatty acids and DNA methylation in Mexican women undergoing in vitro fertilization11
Diurnal timing of physical activity in relation to obesity and diabetes in the German National Cohort (NAKO)11
Association between the indole pathway of tryptophan metabolism and subclinical depressive symptoms in obesity: a preliminary study10
Interactions between nocturnal melatonin secretion, metabolism, and sleeping behavior in adolescents with obesity10
Correction to: School nutrition laws in the US: do they influence obesity among youth in a racially/ethnically diverse state?10
Association of excess visceral fat and severe illness in hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Japan: a retrospective cohort study10
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is associated with the impairment of beta-cell response to glucose in children and adolescents with obesity10
Gestational body weight gain and risk of low birth weight or macrosomia in women of Japan: a nationwide cohort study10
Obesity status and obesity-associated gut dysbiosis effects on hypothalamic structural covariance10
Associations of body mass index, fasting insulin, and inflammation with mortality: a prospective cohort study10
Kidney damage predictors in children with metabolically healthy and metabolically unhealthy obesity phenotype10
Distinct B cell profiles characterise healthy weight and obesity pre- and post-bariatric surgery10
Visual demonstration of weight loss and health risk improvement with a dual GIP and GLP-1 receptor agonist10
Is obesity associated with depression in low- and middle-income countries? Longitudinal evidence from Indonesia10
Expression of p53 in human adipose tissue correlates positively with FAS and BMI10
Relationships between intrauterine fetal growth trajectories and markers of adiposity and inflammation in young adults10
Childhood body mass index and associations with infant gut metabolites and secretory IgA: findings from a prospective cohort study10
Cost-effectiveness of weight-management pharmacotherapies in Canada: a societal perspective10
Modelling the direct and indirect associations between anthropometric and behavioural factors when predicting atherogenic risk index (TC/HDL-C) ratio10
Primary weight loss failure after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass is characterized by impaired gut-hormone mediated regulation of food intake10
Consumption of methyl donor nutrients and incidence of obesity: is the association influenced by parent’s obesity? Results of 4 years of follow-up of the CUME study10
Lifestyle instability: an overlooked cause of population obesity?10
Characterizing the effect of bariatric surgery on circulating S100A910
Individual participant data meta-analysis of eating behaviour traits as effect modifiers in acceptance and commitment therapy-based weight management interventions10
V̇O2peak estimation in people with overweight and obesity before and after a 14-week lifestyle intervention10
Obesity paradox in ICU? A topic of discussion, not a key issue!10
Ultraviolet exposure of mice fed a high fat diet reduces weight gain and markers of liver disease progression10
Obesogens: a unifying theory for the global rise in obesity10
Sex as an independent variable in the measurement of satiation: a retrospective cohort study10
The association between metabolically healthy obesity and risk of depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis10
Inulin supplementation in pediatric obesity management: a critical appraisal of efficacy and limitations10
Effectiveness of a health promotion program on overweight in vulnerable children from primary schools (BeE-school): A cluster-randomized controlled trial10
The heritability of BMI varies across the range of BMI—a heritability curve analysis in a twin cohort10
Providing a common language for obesity: the European Association for the Study of Obesity obesity taxonomy10
A systematic review with meta-analyses of the relationship between recurrent binge eating and sleep parameters9
Prediction of childhood overweight and obesity at age 10–11: findings from the Studying Lifecourse Obesity PrEdictors and the Born in Bradford cohorts9
Multiplicative effect of frailty and obesity on postoperative mortality following spine surgery: a deep dive into the frailty, obesity, and Clavien-Dindo dynamic9
Real -world experience with anti-obesity medications treatment in children and adolescents with overweight and obesity in Israel9
Leptin resistance before and after obesity: evidence that tissue glucose uptake underlies adipocyte enlargement and liver steatosis/steatohepatitis in Zucker rats from early-life stages9
Central obesity may account for most of the colorectal cancer risk linked to obesity: evidence from the UK Biobank prospective cohort9
Association between body mass index and semen quality: a systematic review and meta-analysis9
Shedding the weight of exercise for obesity management9
Role of pancreatic lipase inhibition in obesity treatment: mechanisms and challenges towards current insights and future directions9
Weight loss as a predictor of reduced survival in patients with lung cancer: a systematic review with meta-analysis9
Development and validation of a machine learning model for predicting pediatric metabolic syndrome using anthropometric and bioelectrical impedance parameters9
Which adiposity marker is most strongly associated with all‑cause and cause‑specific mortality? a prospective study of 158,699 Mexican adults9
Associations of obesity indices change with cardiovascular outcomes: a dose-response meta-analysis9
Genetically predicted visceral adipose tissue and risk of nine non-tumour gastrointestinal diseases: evidence from a Mendelian randomization study9
Cushing’s syndrome screening with the 1-mg dexamethasone suppression test in metabolically healthy and unhealthy obesity phenotypes9
Adiposity associates with lower plasma resolvin E1 (Rve1): a population study9
The impact of obesity and overweight on response to internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy for adults with chronic health conditions9
Effect of exercise training on insulin-stimulated glucose disposal: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials9
The mitochondrial quality control system: a new target for exercise therapeutic intervention in the treatment of brain insulin resistance-induced neurodegeneration in obesity9
Dynapenic obesity associated with incidence and progression trajectory of cardiometabolic diseases: a prospective cohort study9
Association between BMI, RFM and mortality and potential mediators: Prospective findings from the Moli-sani study9
The majority of SARS-CoV-2-specific antibodies in COVID-19 patients with obesity are autoimmune and not neutralizing9
In-utero co-exposure to toxic metals and micronutrients on childhood risk of overweight or obesity: new insight on micronutrients counteracting toxic metals9
Modification of the association by sex between the prenatal exposure to di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate and fat percentage in a cohort of Mexicans schoolchildren9
Hidden barriers: obesity bias in hypertension treatment9
The rs2341471-G/G genotype of activating transcription factor 6 (ATF6) is the risk factor of type 2 diabetes in subjects with obesity or overweight9
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