Health Consequences of Obesity in Youth: Childhood Predictors of Adult Disease

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

1995 • 2,450 citations

Socioeconomic status and obesity: A review of the literature.

1989 • 2,268 citations

Long-Term Morbidity and Mortality of Overweight Adolescents

1992 • 2,258 citations

Obesity, Fat Distribution, and Weight Gain as Risk Factors for Clinical Diabetes in Men

1994 • 1,842 citations

Social and Economic Consequences of Overweight in Adolescence and Young Adulthood

1993 • 1,653 citations

Menstrual Cycles: Fatness as a Determinant of Minimum Weight for Height Necessary for Their Maintenance or Onset

1974 • 1,421 citations

Increased incidence of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus among adolescents

1996 • 1,204 citations

The Syndromes of Insulin Resistance and Acanthosis Nigricans

1976 • 1,086 citations

Critical periods in childhood for the development of obesity

1994 • 1,077 citations

POLYCYSTIC OVARIES—A COMMON FINDING IN NORMAL WOMEN

1988 • 926 citations

Polycystic ovary syndrome

1997 • 848 citations

Early Onset of Reproductive Function in Normal Female Mice Treated with Leptin

1997 • 844 citations

The predictive value of childhood body mass index values for overweight at age 35 y

1994 • 763 citations

Development of eating problems in adolescent girls: A longitudinal study.

1989 • 718 citations

Height and Weight at Menarche and a Hypothesis of Critical Body Weights and Adolescent Events

1970 • 715 citations

REVIEW ARTICLE: THE POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME

1980 • 702 citations

Childhood Risk Factors for High Adult Blood Pressure: The Muscatine Study

1989 • 639 citations

The effect of insulin on renal sodium metabolism

1981 • 633 citations

Cultural Uniformity in Reaction to Physical Disabilities

1961 • 596 citations

A study of social stereotype of body image in children.

1967 • 482 citations

Parental neglect during childhood and increased risk of obesity in young adulthood

1994 • 469 citations

Coronary heart disease risk factors in school children: The Muscatine study

1975 • 461 citations

Dieting Behavior and Eating Attitudes in Children

1989 • 442 citations

Binge Eating Disorder: Current Knowledge and Future Directions

1993 • 419 citations

Persistence of Multiple Cardiovascular Risk Clustering Related to Syndrome X From Childhood to Young Adulthood

1994 • 414 citations

Effects of obesity and caloric intake on biliary lipid metabolism in man.

1975 • 389 citations

Weight-related attitudes and behaviors of black women

1993 • 386 citations

Weight, Diet, and the Risk of Symptomatic Gallstones in Middle-Aged Women

1989 • 376 citations

The Polycystic Ovary. I. Clinical and Histologic Features

1962 • 366 citations

Obesity and Stature in Adolescence and Earnings in Young Adulthood

1994 • 345 citations

Sleep-associated breathing disorders in morbidly obese children and adolescents

1989 • 330 citations

Onset of obesity in a 36 year birth cohort study.

1986 • 309 citations

Fat distribution and cardiovascular risk factors in obese adolescent girls: importance of the intraabdominal fat depot

1996 • 298 citations

Obesity — Its Possible Effect on College Acceptance

1966 • 274 citations

Insulin and renal sodium retention in obese adolescents.

1989 • 274 citations

Childhood Weight and Growth Rate as Predictors of Adult Mortality

1992 • 267 citations

Partial replacement of saturated fatty acids with almonds or walnuts lowers total plasma cholesterol and low-density-lipoprotein cholesterol

1994 • 257 citations

Blood pressure in obese adolescents: effect of weight loss.

1988 • 250 citations

Obesity and the Body Image: II. Age at Onset of Disturbances in the Body Image

1967 • 243 citations

Neurocognitive deficits in morbidly obese children with obstructive sleep apnea

1995 • 241 citations

Maturational timing as a factor in female fatness and obesity

1986 • 240 citations

Relationship of Excess Weight in Children and Adults

1960 • 236 citations

Nutrition, Growth, Development, and Maturation: Findings From the Ten-State Nutrition Survey of 1968-1970

1975 • 226 citations

Relationship between insulin resistance and abnormal lipid profile in obese adolescents

1995 • 225 citations

Rapid maturation in adolescence results in greater obesity in adulthood: the Amsterdam Growth and Health Study

1996 • 225 citations

Gallstone Formation During Weight-Reduction Dieting

1989 • 211 citations

Relation of body fat distribution to hyperinsulinemia in children and adolescents: the Bogalusa Heart Study

1987 • 206 citations

Persistent hyperaminotransferasemia resolving after weight reduction in obese children

1994 • 202 citations

A 40-year history of overweight children in Stockholm: life-time overweight, morbidity, and mortality.

1994 • 199 citations

Central adiposity and its metabolic correlates in obese adolescent girls

1995 • 195 citations

Blount disease (tibia vara): Another skeletal disorder associated with childhood obesity

1982 • 194 citations

Normal Blood Pressures and the Evaluation of Sustained Blood Pressure Elevation in Childhood: The Muscatine Study

1978 • 189 citations

Fatty Liver and Its Fibrous Changes Found in Simple Obesity of Children

1984 • 189 citations

Pathogenesis and Treatment of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

1988 • 171 citations

Relation of body fat patterning to lipid and lipoprotein concentrations in children and adolescents: the Bogalusa Heart Study

1989 • 152 citations

Elevated Blood Pressure Levels in Adolescents, Evans County, Georgia

1969 • 151 citations

Subcapsular steatonecrosis in response to peritoneal insulin delivery: a clue to the pathogenesis of steatonecrosis in obesity.

1989 • 143 citations

Intra-abdominal adipose tissue in young children.

1995 • 129 citations

Antecedents and consequences of variations in girls' maturational timing

1988 • 128 citations

The polycystic ovary

1965 • 123 citations

The Incidence and Distribution of Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis in Connecticut and Southwestern United States

1970 • 123 citations

Human adipocyte cholesterol. Concentration, localization, synthesis, and turnover.

1975 • 123 citations

Persistence of juvenile-onset obesity over eight years: the Bogalusa Heart Study.

1987 • 118 citations

Critical fat, menarche, and the maintenance of menstrual cycles

1982 • 112 citations

Childhood obesity and self-esteem

1986 • 111 citations

Skeletal growth, fatness and menarcheal age: a comparison of two hypotheses.

1982 • 111 citations

Benign intracranial hypertension: A review of 79 cases in infancy and childhood

1971 • 109 citations

Weight Modification Efforts Reported by Black and White Preadolescent Girls: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Growth and Health Study

1996 • 109 citations

The Body Build of Patients With Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis

1972 • 108 citations

SLIPPED UPPER FEMORAL EPIPHYSIS

1957 • 107 citations

Nutrition and growth

1977 • 104 citations

A comparison of the psychological adjustment of obese vs. non-obese children

1973 • 104 citations

Obesity, acanthosis nigricans, insulin resistance, and hyperandrogenemia: Pediatric perspective and natural history

1985 • 103 citations

Binge‐eating Disorder in Obese Adolescent Girls^a

1993 • 88 citations

Association between juvenile onset obesity and severe adult obesity in 73, 532 women.

1976 • 85 citations

Pseudotumor Cerebri of Childhood

1977 • 83 citations

Body-fat distribution and changes in the atherogenic risk-factor profile in obese adolescent girls during weight reduction

1994 • 83 citations

Slipped Upper Femoral Epiphysis:Clinical Study on Aetiology

1968 • 77 citations

The Emergence of Clinically Abnormal Levels of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factor Variables Among Young Adults: The Bogalusa Heart-Study

1995 • 74 citations

The Association of Maternal Psychopathology and Family Socioeconomic Status with Psychological Problems in Obese Children

1996 • 69 citations

Eating disorders among adolescents: patterns and prevalence.

1984 • 66 citations

Association of fasting insulin with blood pressure in young individuals. The Bogalusa Heart Study.

1993 • 62 citations

Biological maturation and the distribution of subcutaneous fat from adolescence into adulthood: the Amsterdam Growth and Health Study.

1996 • 57 citations

Complications of Obesity-Hypoventilation Syndrome in Childhood

1976 • 42 citations

Further Evidence of an Association between Psychosocial Problems and Increase in Relative Weight between 7 and 10 Years of Age

1989 • 41 citations

Association of Fasting Insulin With Blood Pressure in Young Individuals

1993 • 36 citations

Cholecystitis in adolescents

1972 • 31 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations