Epidemiologic aspects of overweight and obesity in the United States☆

Reduction in the Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes with Lifestyle Intervention or Metformin

2002 • 18,132 citations

Clinical guidelines on the identification, evaluation, and treatment of overweight and obesity in adults: The evidence report

1998 • 9,277 citations

Prevalence and Trends in Obesity Among US Adults, 1999-2000

2002 • 6,312 citations

Physical Status: The Use and Interpretation of Anthropometry

1996 • 6,178 citations

CDC GROWTH CHARTS FOR THE UNITED STATES: METHODS AND DEVELOPMENT 2000

2002 • 6,064 citations

Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity Among US Children, Adolescents, and Adults, 1999-2002

2004 • 4,576 citations

Prevalence and Trends in Overweight Among US Children and Adolescents, 1999-2000

2002 • 4,212 citations

Excess Deaths Associated With Underweight, Overweight, and Obesity

2005 • 2,828 citations

Prevalence of Diabetes, Impaired Fasting Glucose, and Impaired Glucose Tolerance in U.S. Adults: The Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988–1994

1998 • 2,780 citations

Increasing prevalence of overweight among US adults. The National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys, 1960 to 1991

1994 • 2,623 citations

Obesity and the Environment: Where Do We Go from Here?

2003 • 2,205 citations

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2000 Growth Charts for the United States: Improvements to the 1977 National Center for Health Statistics Version

2002 • 1,982 citations

Obesity Evaluation and Treatment: Expert Committee Recommendations

1998 • 1,593 citations

Overweight Prevalence and Trends for Children and Adolescents

1995 • 1,459 citations

National Medical Spending Attributable To Overweight And Obesity: How Much, And Who's Paying?

2003 • 1,194 citations

Guidelines for overweight in adolescent preventive services: recommendations from an expert committee

1994 • 1,040 citations

Secular Trends in Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors According to Body Mass Index in US Adults

2005 • 979 citations

Look AHEAD (Action for Health in Diabetes): design and methods for a clinical trial of weight loss for the prevention of cardiovascular disease in type 2 diabetes

2003 • 739 citations

Overweight prevalence and trends for children and adolescents

1996 • 735 citations

Health and Welfare during Industrialization

1997 • 642 citations

Changes in the distribution of body mass index of adults and children in the US population

2000 • 527 citations

The etiology of obesity: relative contribution of metabolic factors, diet, and physical activity

1998 • 399 citations

Costs Associated With the Primary Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in the Diabetes Prevention Program

2003 • 359 citations

Plan and operation of the Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, United States, 1971–1973

1973 • 353 citations

Emergence of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Children: Epidemiological Evidence

2000 • 329 citations

Health, United States, 2004; with chartbook on trends in the health of Americans

2004 • 320 citations

Plan and operation of the Second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1976-1980.

1981 • 310 citations

Secular trends in overweight and obesity among Finnish adolescents in 1977–1999

2002 • 252 citations

Relation of Body Mass Index in Young Adulthood and Middle Age to Medicare Expenditures in Older Age

2004 • 248 citations

ENERGY EXPENDITURE, PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, AND OBESITY IN CHILDREN

2001 • 189 citations

Trends in coronary risk factors in the WHO MONICA Project

2001 • 173 citations

Trends in overweight and obesity from 1985 to 2002 in Göteborg, West Sweden

2005 • 172 citations

Prevalence of overweight and obesity and trends in body mass index in German pre-school children, 1982–1997

2002 • 154 citations

Increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity among Spanish adults, 1987–1997

2000 • 148 citations

Body Mass Index and Mortality in a General Population Sample Women of Men and Women: The Buffalo Health Study

1997 • 144 citations

Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States

1997 • 142 citations

Increasing prevalence of overweight, obesity and physical inactivity: Two population-based studies 1986 and 1994

2003 • 121 citations

Plan and operation of the HANES I augmentation survey of adults 25-74 years United States, 1974-1975.

1978 • 95 citations

Influence of social class on time trends in BMI distribution in 5-year-old French children from 1989 to 1999

2004 • 82 citations

Ten-year trends in overweight and obesity among Danish men and women aged 30–60 years

2000 • 78 citations