Pediatric Obesity

Papers
(The median citation count of Pediatric Obesity is 1. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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High levels of FSH before puberty are associated with increased risk of metabolic syndrome during pubertal transition104
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Cost‐effectiveness analysis of individual‐level obesity treatment in paediatrics: A scoping review34
Effectiveness of an adapted physical activity intervention for weight management in adolescents with intellectual disability: A randomized controlled trial33
Associations between eating behaviours and cardiometabolic risk among adolescents in the Health Outcomes and Measures of the Environment study33
Early‐life exposure to tobacco and childhood adiposity: Identifying windows of susceptibility28
Acute simulated weight gain might not increase the energy cost of walking in adolescents with obesity27
Weight‐based cybervictimization: Implications for adolescent health25
Use of person‐centred language among scientific research focused on childhood obesity24
Association between bone age maturity and childhood adiposity23
Afternoon school shift is associated with increased risk of overweight/obesity in 11–14‐year‐old females with early and intermediate chronotype23
Mendelian randomization analysis identified causal Association of Childhood Obesity with adult major depressive disorder23
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Correction to “Unintentional error in formula preparation and its simulated impact on infant weight and adiposity”22
Impact of COVID‐19 pandemic on children overweight in Japan in 202021
Association of gut microbiota and glucose metabolism in children with disparate degrees of adiposity21
Gut microbiota and microbial metabolites are associated with body composition in 5‐year‐old children: A cross‐sectional study in the Gen3G cohort19
An improved algorithm to harmonize child overweight and obesity prevalence rates19
Metabolomic profiling of stool of two‐year old children from the INSIGHT study reveals links between butyrate and child weight outcomes19
Physical activity, screen time and body composition in 13‐year‐old adolescents: The Generation R Study18
An addiction‐based digital weight loss intervention: A multi‐centre randomized controlled trial18
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Family structure in relation to body mass index and metabolic score in European children and adolescents16
Overweight/obesity is associated with problematic social media use: Addressing problematic social media use could help reduce overweight/obesity among adolescents16
Assessment and impact of paediatric internalized weight bias: A systematic review16
Childhood obesity within the lens of racism16
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Associations of maternal and infant metabolite profiles with foetal growth and the odds of adverse birth outcomes15
Temperament and eating self‐regulation in young children with or at risk for obesity: An exploratory report14
Changes in nonnutritive sweetener intake in a cohort of preschoolers after the implementation of Chile's Law of Food Labelling and Advertising14
Neurological‐related proteomic profiling in plasma of children with metabolic healthy and unhealthy overweight/obesity14
Child and mother characteristics associated with 6‐month weight gain for infants and toddlers during 6 to 36 months14
Evaluating the impact of community interventions on childhood obesity in populations living in low‐income households in Los Angeles: A simulation study14
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Associations of radiologic characteristics of the neonatal hypothalamus with early life adiposity gain13
Strategies to promote responsive bottle‐feeding in WIC predict less frequent use of food to soothe and healthier weight status for infants with negative temperaments13
FirstStep2Health: A cluster randomised trial to promote healthy behaviours and prevent obesity amongst low‐income preschoolers12
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Adolescent experiences of weight‐related communication: Sociodemographic differences and the role of parents10
Exploring the association between internalized weight bias and mental health among Canadian adolescents10
Time spent on social media use and BMI z‐score: A cross‐sectional explanatory pathway analysis of 10798 14‐year‐old boys and girls10
Early growth according to protein content of infant formula: Results from the EDEN and ELFE birth cohorts10
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
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 17310
Bioactive compounds in mothers milk affecting offspring outcomes: A narrative review10
Visceral fat and arterial stiffness in youth with healthy weight, obesity, and type 2 diabetes10
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Modified body mass index z‐scores in children in New York City during the COVID‐19 pandemic10
Early childhood executive control modulates negative affectivity's role in increasing adolescent body mass index trajectories10
Association of insufficient sleep and skipping breakfast with overweight/obesity in children and adolescents: Findings from a cross‐sectional provincial surveillance project in Jiangsu10
Development of a prediction protocol for the screening of metabolic associated fatty liver disease in children with overweight or obesity10
Infant intakes of human milk branched chain amino acids are negatively associated with infant growth and influenced by maternal body mass index9
Nutrition transition's latest stage: Are ultra‐processed food increases in low‐ and middle‐income countries dooming our preschoolers' diets and future health?9
Adolescents' chronotype and its association with obesity‐related outcomes: The EHDLA study9
Impact of theCOVID‐19 pandemic on elementary schoolers' physical activity, sleep, screen time and diet: A quasi‐experimental interrupted time series study9
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South‐to‐South parental migration patterns and excess weight among children: Insights from a national cross‐sectional study in Colombia9
Identifying elevated child weight from 3 to 24 months: Early transitions into nonparental care and to solid foods9
The use of submaximal parameters in the assessment of exercise capacity in children with obesity9
Prevalence of overweight and obesity and associated demographic and health factors in India: Findings from Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey (CNNS)9
Associations of cord blood leukocyte telomere length with adiposity growth from infancy to adolescence9
Recent trends in overweight and obesity in adolescents aged 12 to 15 years across 21 countries9
Lifestyle patterns in European preschoolers: Associations with socio‐demographic factors and body mass index9
The role of lifestyle in the impact of constant phthalate exposure on overweight and obesity: A longitudinal cohort study in China9
Association between excessive screen time and steatotic liver disease in adolescents: Findings from the 2017–2018 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey9
Impact ofCOVID‐19 on childhood obesity: Data from a paediatric weight management trial9
Association of intestinal microbiota and its metabolite markers with excess weight in Chinese children and adolescents9
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 trial8
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Association between sugar‐free beverage intake and childhood obesity among Chinese children and adolescents8
Child ADHD and autistic traits, eating behaviours and weight: A population‐based study8
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Physical activity and adiposity in preschool children: The Barwon Infant Study8
Lifestyle‐based subtypes of childhood obesity and their association with cardiometabolic factors: A cluster analysis8
Maternal pre‐pregnancy body mass index and offspring with overweight/obesity at preschool age: The possible role of epigenome‐wideDNAmethylation changes in cord blood8
The predictive utility of the in utero exposome for childhood adiposity in independent and integrated frameworks8
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 Cohort7
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Does the severity of obesity influence bone density, geometry and strength in adolescents?7
Update on pediatric metabolic and bariatric surgery7
Trends in U.S. adolescent physical activity and obesity: A 20‐year age‐period‐cohort analysis7
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. children7
Performance of mid‐upper arm circumference to identify adolescents with obesity and metabolic syndrome: NHANES 2011–2018 analysis7
Body mass index and visual impairment in Israeli adolescents: A nationwide study7
Genetic risk score prediction of leg fat and insulin sensitivity differs by race/ethnicity in early pubertal children7
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Application of a composite scoring protocol to identify factors that contribute to the risk of overweight and obesity in Irish children7
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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Television watching during meals is associated with higher ultra‐processed food consumption and higher free sugar intake in childhood6
Early‐life body mass index and the risk of six cardiovascular diseases: A Mendelian Randomization study6
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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)6
The association of breastfeeding duration on metabolic syndrome among children and adolescents, stratified by birth weight for gestational age6
Prevalence of low and high BMI during the first 3 years of life: using New Zealand national electronic health data6
Assessment of executive functions and physical activity in girls and boys with normal weight, overweight and obesity6
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
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
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 China5
Factors that shape dietary intake in children in the context of increasing risk for obesity development5
Association between calcium intake from different food sources during childhood and cardiometabolic risk on adolescence: The Generation XXI birth cohort5
Prediction of resting energy expenditure for adolescents with severe obesity: A multi‐centre analysis5
Differential associations between television viewing, computer use, and adiposity by age, gender, and race/ethnicity in United States youth: A cross‐sectionalNHANESanalysis5
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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Attrition rate and predictors of a monitoring mHealth application in adolescents with obesity5
Association between maternal and infant screen time with child growth and development: A longitudinal study5
Youth prediabetes and type 2 diabetes: Risk factors and prevalence of dysglycaemia5
Effectiveness and predictors of weight loss response to phentermine plus lifestyle modifications among youth in a paediatric weight management clinical setting5
Modifiable early life exposures associated with adiposity and obesity in 3‐year old children born to mothers with obesity5
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Circadian variation of serum leptin and adipose tissue changes in children5
Personalized approach to childhood obesity: Lessons from gut microbiota and omics studies. Narrative review and insights from the 29th European childhood obesity congress5
Parental education and neighbourhood socioeconomic status in the prediction of childhood overweight: A multilevel analysis5
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Serum zonulin as an index of glucose dysregulation in children and adolescents with overweight and obesity5
Early life social conditions and adverse experiences are associated with childhood BMI and perceived overeating5
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
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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
Delay discounting and nucleus accumbens functional connectivity are related to weight status in adolescents from the ABCD study5
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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
What can stop the ‘pester power’? A longitudinal study on the impact of children's audiovisual media consumption on media‐motivated food purchase requests4
Associations of sleep with food cravings and loss‐of‐control eating in youth: An ecological momentary assessment study4
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
Food addiction and its impact on weight status in children and adolescents: The mediating role of responsive eating pattern4
Associations between weight status, body satisfaction, ethnic identity and self‐esteem in Oceanian adolescents4
Association between body mass index at birth and neonatal health outcomes in preterm infants: A retrospective analysis4
Prevalence of food and beverage brands in “made‐for‐kids” child‐influencer YouTube videos: 2019–20204
Leptin resistance in children with in utero exposure to maternal obesity and gestational diabetes4
Prenatal weight and regional body composition trajectories and neonatal body composition: The NICHD Foetal Growth Studies4
Relationships examined: Parent and child readiness to change and sociodemographic characteristics in family based weight loss treatment4
Age‐dependent association of obesity with COVID‐19 severity in paediatric patients4
Mediation by parent health literacy and behaviour of socioeconomic inequality in child overweight4
Problematic social media use and overweight/obesity: explanatory pathway analysis of 124 667 in‐school adolescents in 39 high‐income countries4
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Referral and utilization of paediatric bariatric surgery in an academic freestanding children's hospital with dedicated paediatric bariatric programme4
Childhood sleep and obesity risk: A prospective cohort study of 10 000 Swedish children4
Anthropometric models to estimate fat mass at 3 days, 15 and 54 weeks4
Impact of prenatal exposure to delta 9‐tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabidiol on birth size and postnatal growth trajectories4
Effect of Indo‐Mediterranean diet versus calorie‐restricted diet in children with non‐alcoholic fatty liver disease: A pilot randomized control trial4
Longitudinal associations between sleep and weight status in infants and toddlers4
Effects of PNPLA3, TM6SF2 and SAMM50 on the development and severity of non‐alcoholic fatty liver disease in children3
The effects of duration of any breastfeeding on body mass index in Australian children: Exploration of health, economic and equity impacts3
Relationship between motivations and dietary behaviours within parent–adolescent dyads: Application of actor–partner interdependence models3
Short‐term complications and post‐acute sequelae in hospitalized paediatric patients with COVID‐19 and obesity: A multicenter cohort study3
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Early life factors and hippocampal functional connectivity in children with overweight/obesity3
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Impact of the motivational interviewing for childhood obesity treatment: The Obemat2.0 randomized clinical trial3
Population trajectories and age‐dependent associations of obesity risk factors with body mass index from childhood to adolescence across European regions: A two‐cohort study3
Sibling absence and body mass index: From adolescence to adulthood3
NET‐Works paediatric obesity prevention trial: 66 month outcomes3
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Evaluating appetite/satiety hormones and eating behaviours as predictors of weight loss maintenance with GLP‐1RA therapy in adolescents with severe obesity3
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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Potential cost‐effectiveness of e‐health interventions for treating overweight and obesity in Australian adolescents3
Review of paediatric obesity and non‐alcoholic fatty liver disease—A focus on emerging non‐pharmacologic treatment strategies3
Psychiatric comorbidity associated with weight status in 9 to 10 year old children3
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Sleep‐disordered breathing and cardiometabolic and inflammatory markers in children with overweight/obesity: The role of cardiorespiratory fitness3
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Voluntary healthier kids' meals policies: Are caregivers choosing kids' meals and healthier items for their child?3
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The association of ultra‐processed food intake with adolescent metabolic dysfunction‐associated steatotic liver disease in the NHANES3
The effects of a lifestyle intervention (the HealthyMoms app) during pregnancy on infant body composition: Secondary outcome analysis from a randomized controlled trial3
Relationship between chrononutrition and cardiometabolic risk in prepubertal children with and without excess weight3
Prospective physical fitness status and development of cardiometabolic risk in children according to body fat and lifestyle behaviours: The IDEFICS study3
Association between gestational weight gain and risk of overweight at 3 years old: The Japan Environment and Children's Study3
Changes in obesity and lifestyle behaviours during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Chinese adolescents: A longitudinal analysis from 2019 to 20203
Insufficient physical activity and high sedentary behaviour are associated with loneliness in adolescents with overweight/obesity: Evidence from 23 low‐ and middle‐income countries2
The longitudinal association between neighbourhood quality and cardiovascular risk factors among youth receiving obesity treatment2
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Associations of adiponectin concentrations from birth until late adolescence with insulin resistance2
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Body fat differences among US youth aged 8–19 by race and Hispanic origin, 2011–20182
Metabolomics reveals sex‐specific pathways associated with changes in adiposity and muscle mass in a cohort of Mexican adolescents2
Associations between maternal obesity and offspring gut microbiome in the first year of life2
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
Correction to “Mediators of the association between childhood body mass index and educational attainment: Analysis of a UK prospective cohort study”2
Effects of pictorial warnings on parents' purchases and perceptions of sugar‐sweetened beverage categories2
Variant reclassification over time decreases the level of diagnostic uncertainty in monogenic obesity: Experience from two centres2
Impaired metabolic health over‐time and high abdominal fat are prospectively associated with high‐sensitivity C‐reactive protein in children: The IDEFICS study2
Circulating miRNAs in girls with abdominal obesity: miR‐221‐3p as a biomarker of response to weight loss interventions2
Elevated transaminases potentiate the risk for emerging dysglycemia in children with overweight and obesity2
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Longitudinal associations between early child weight gain, parent feeding, child self‐regulation, and later child body mass index2
Possible prediction of obesity‐related liver disease in children and adolescents using indices of body composition2
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Central obesity in school‐aged children increases the likelihood of developing paediatric autoimmune diseases2
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Controlled attenuation parameter in the diagnosis of different liver steatosis groups in children with obesity2
Trends in school‐neighbourhood inequalities and youth obesity: Repeated cross‐sectional analyses of the public schools in the state of California2
Academic performance and psychosocial functioning in European schoolchildren: The role of cardiorespiratory fitness and weight status2
Mediators of the association between childhood body mass index and educational attainment: Analysis of a UK prospective cohort study2
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Neighbourhood socio‐economic environment predicts adiposity and obesity risk in children under two2
The long‐term effects of primary school‐based obesity prevention interventions in children: A systematic review and meta‐analysis2
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Genetic associations with consumption of palatable foods in the absence of hunger in response to food cues in children2
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Associations between parent and adolescent weight outcomes within two parent approaches to family‐based adolescent obesity treatment: Secondary analyses from the TEENS+ pilot trial2
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Pharmacological interventions for the management of children and adolescents living with obesity—An update of a Cochrane systematic review with meta‐analyses2
Negative familial weight talk and weight bias internalization in a US sample of children and adolescents2
Motivations for engaging in or avoiding conversations about weight: Adolescent and parent perspectives2
Acceleration in BMI gain following COVID‐19 restrictions. A longitudinal study with 7‐ to 10‐year‐old primary school children2
Diabetes screening outcomes in youth presenting for paediatric weight management: A report of the Paediatric Obesity Weight Evaluation Registry2
Recent advances in the epidemiology of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in children2
Cost‐effectiveness of scaling up a whole‐of‐community intervention: The Romp & Chomp early childhood obesity prevention intervention2
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Novel dietary interventions for adolescents with obesity: A narrative review2
Blenderized watermelon consumption decreases body mass index, body mass index percentile, body fat and HbA1c in children with overweight or obesity2
A survey of stakeholders' perceived importance of health indicators and subgroup analyses to inform the Canadian clinical practice guideline for managing paediatric obesity2
The role of parents in adolescent obesity treatment: Results of the TEENS+ randomized clinical pilot trial2
The effect of the COVID‐19 pandemic lockdown on the distribution of fat tissue and skinfold thickness in adolescents from Kraków (Poland)1
An open‐label 16‐week study of liraglutide in adolescents with obesity post‐sleeve gastrectomy1
Liraglutide pharmacokinetics and exposure‐response in adolescents with obesity1
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Impulsivity and reward sensitivity facets as predictors of weight change in children: Differences by binge‐eating disorder diagnostic status1
Adolescent overweight and obesity in Ireland—Trends and sociodemographic associations between 1990 and 20201
Psychometric properties of the Child Eating Behavior Questionnaire (CEBQ) in school age children with overweight and obesity: A proposed three‐factor structure1
The influence of parental body composition and lifestyle on offspring growth trajectories1
Infant appetite traits, feeding practices and child obesity in low‐income Hispanic families1
Coexistence of obesity and hunger in young adolescents: Evidence from the Global School‐based Student Health Survey1
Foetal tobacco and cannabis exposure, body fat and cardio‐metabolic health in childhood1
Higher consumption of ultra‐processed foods is associated with higher odds of overweight and obesity amongst under‐five children: A national cross‐sectional study in Lebanon1
Associations between paediatric obesity, chemical mixtures and environmental factors, in a national cross‐sectional study of Canadian children1
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Association between ectopic pancreatic and hepatic fat and metabolic risk factors in children with non‐alcoholic fatty liver disease1
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