Childhood obesity

Establishing a standard definition for child overweight and obesity worldwide: international survey

2000 • 17,219 citations

Social Foundations of Thought and Action

2002 • 9,650 citations

A core gut microbiome in obese and lean twins

2008 • 7,389 citations

Motivational interviewing: preparing people for change.

2002 • 7,033 citations

Childhood obesity: public-health crisis, common sense cure

2002 • 3,046 citations

Interventions for preventing obesity in children

2019 • 2,967 citations

Congenital leptin deficiency is associated with severe early-onset obesity in humans

1997 • 2,900 citations

Worldwide trends in childhood overweight and obesity

2006 • 2,681 citations

A mutation in the human leptin receptor gene causes obesity and pituitary dysfunction

1998 • 2,333 citations

Diabetes mellitus: a "thrifty" genotype rendered detrimental by "progress"? 1962.

1999 • 2,323 citations

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

2003 • 2,205 citations

High Body Mass Index for Age Among US Children and Adolescents, 2003-2006

2008 • 1,908 citations

Comparison of Weight-Loss Diets with Different Compositions of Fat, Protein, and Carbohydrates

2009 • 1,881 citations

Reducing Children's Television Viewing to Prevent Obesity

1999 • 1,879 citations

A Randomized Trial of a Low-Carbohydrate Diet for Obesity

2003 • 1,809 citations

The Glycemic Index

2002 • 1,718 citations

Six new loci associated with body mass index highlight a neuronal influence on body weight regulation

2008 • 1,696 citations

Severe early-onset obesity, adrenal insufficiency and red hair pigmentation caused by POMC mutations in humans

1998 • 1,666 citations

Interventions for treating obesity in children

2009 • 1,565 citations

Epidemiology: Principles and Methods

1970 • 1,500 citations

Overweight Prevalence and Trends for Children and Adolescents

1995 • 1,459 citations

Effect of Infant Feeding on the Risk of Obesity Across the Life Course: A Quantitative Review of Published Evidence

2005 • 1,173 citations

Obesity and impaired prohormone processing associated with mutations in the human prohormone convertase 1 gene

1997 • 1,125 citations

Relationships between media use, body fatness and physical activity in children and youth: a meta-analysis

2004 • 1,121 citations

Comparison of the Atkins, Zone, Ornish, and LEARN Diets for Change in Weight and Related Risk Factors Among Overweight Premenopausal Women

2007 • 1,030 citations

Cardiometabolic Risk of Second-Generation Antipsychotic Medications During First-Time Use in Children and Adolescents

2009 • 975 citations

Decline in Physical Activity in Black Girls and White Girls during Adolescence

2002 • 959 citations

The who Multicentre Growth Reference Study: Planning, Study Design, and Methodology

2004 • 882 citations

Inactivation of the mouse melanocortin-3 receptor results in increased fat mass and reduced lean body mass

2000 • 878 citations

Recommendations for Treatment of Child and Adolescent Overweight and Obesity

2007 • 863 citations

Dominant and recessive inheritance of morbid obesity associated with melanocortin 4 receptor deficiency

2000 • 795 citations

Rapid infancy weight gain and subsequent obesity: Systematic reviews and hopeful suggestions

2006 • 784 citations

Overweight prevalence and trends for children and adolescents

1996 • 735 citations

Ten-Year Follow-up of Behavioral, Family-Based Treatment for Obese Children

1990 • 727 citations

Interventions for preventing obesity in children

2005 • 710 citations

Clinical and Molecular Genetic Spectrum of Congenital Deficiency of the Leptin Receptor

2007 • 680 citations

Hyperproinsulinaemia in obese fat/fat mice associated with a carboxypeptidase E mutation which reduces enzyme activity

1995 • 669 citations

Trends in Energy Intake in U.S. between 1977 and 1996: Similar Shifts Seen across Age Groups

2002 • 650 citations

Elevated plasma ghrelin levels in Prader–Willi syndrome

2002 • 604 citations

Effect of Orlistat on Weight and Body Composition in Obese Adolescents

2005 • 586 citations

A de novo mutation affecting human TrkB associated with severe obesity and developmental delay

2004 • 584 citations

Members of the who Multicentre Growth Reference Study Group

2004 • 577 citations

Genetics of Obesity in Humans

2006 • 561 citations

Melanin-concentrating hormone 1 receptor-deficient mice are lean, hyperactive, and hyperphagic and have altered metabolism

2002 • 547 citations

Ounces of Prevention — The Public Policy Case for Taxes on Sugared Beverages

2009 • 519 citations

Thelarche, Pubarche, and Menarche Attainment in Children With Normal and Elevated Body Mass Index

2008 • 466 citations

Disruption of Intraflagellar Transport in Adult Mice Leads to Obesity and Slow-Onset Cystic Kidney Disease

2007 • 461 citations

Hyperphagia, Severe Obesity, Impaired Cognitive Function, and Hyperactivity Associated With Functional Loss of One Copy of the Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) Gene

2006 • 460 citations

A Reduced–Glycemic Load Diet in the Treatment of Adolescent Obesity

2003 • 442 citations

Obesity and the Risk of Newly Diagnosed Asthma in School-age Children

2003 • 434 citations

Orthopedic Complications of Overweight in Children and Adolescents

2006 • 434 citations

Rose's Strategy of Preventive Medicine

2008 • 425 citations

Associations between objectively measured habitual physical activity and adiposity in children and adolescents: Systematic review

2010 • 422 citations

Hypovitaminosis D in obese children and adolescents: relationship with adiposity, insulin sensitivity, ethnicity, and season

2008 • 421 citations

Adiposity and Hyperinsulinemia in Indians Are Present at Birth

2002 • 417 citations

Effects of prolonged and exclusive breastfeeding on child height, weight, adiposity, and blood pressure at age 6.5 y: evidence from a large randomized trial

2007 • 408 citations

Overweight Children and Adolescents: A Risk Group for Iron Deficiency

2004 • 404 citations

Racial and Ethnic Differences in Secular Trends for Childhood BMI, Weight, and Height

2006 • 401 citations

Large Maternal Weight Loss From Obesity Surgery Prevents Transmission of Obesity to Children Who Were Followed for 2 to 18 Years

2006 • 381 citations

The Predisposition to Obesity and Diabetes in Offspring of Diabetic Mothers

2007 • 375 citations

Interventions for treating obesity in children

2009 • 362 citations

Complications of obesity in children and adolescents

2012 • 358 citations

School-Based Interventions on Childhood Obesity

2009 • 347 citations

Motivational Interviewing for Pediatric Obesity: Conceptual Issues and Evidence Review

2006 • 345 citations

Body Mass Index in Adolescence in Relation to Cause-specific Mortality: A Follow-up of 230,000 Norwegian Adolescents

2008 • 330 citations

Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor and Obesity in the WAGR Syndrome

2008 • 329 citations

Effects of a low-carbohydrate diet on weight loss and cardiovascular risk factor in overweight adolescents

2003 • 323 citations

Human adenovirus-36 is associated with increased body weight and paradoxical reduction of serum lipids

2004 • 300 citations

Dietary risk factors for development of childhood obesity

2007 • 296 citations

Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Bariatric Surgery for Pediatric Obesity

2008 • 296 citations

Requirement of Bardet-Biedl syndrome proteins for leptin receptor signaling

2009 • 294 citations

Estimating the changes in energy flux that characterize the rise in obesity prevalence

2009 • 292 citations

Octreotide Therapy of Pediatric Hypothalamic Obesity: A Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial

2003 • 284 citations

A missense mutation disrupting a dibasic prohormone processing site in pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) increases susceptibility to early-onset obesity through a novel molecular mechanism

2002 • 284 citations

NPY and Y receptors: lessons from transgenic and knockout models

2004 • 275 citations

Individuality and epigenetics in obesity

2009 • 260 citations

Children grow and horses race: is the adiposity rebound a critical period for later obesity?

2004 • 250 citations

Season and Ethnicity Are Determinants of Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Concentrations in New Zealand Children Aged 5–14 y

2005 • 229 citations

Effects of Sibutramine Treatment in Obese Adolescents

2006 • 228 citations

Association of existing diabetes, gestational diabetes and glycosuria in pregnancy with macrosomia and offspring body mass index, waist and fat mass in later childhood: findings from a prospective pregnancy cohort

2009 • 217 citations

Hyperphagia and Early-Onset Obesity due to a Novel Homozygous Missense Mutation in Prohormone Convertase 1/3

2007 • 216 citations

Early adiposity rebound: review of papers linking this to subsequent obesity in children and adults

2005 • 196 citations

[Obesity in children].

2000 • 196 citations

Is body mass index before middle age related to coronary heart disease risk in later life? Evidence from observational studies

2009 • 193 citations

The contribution of childhood obesity to adult carotid intima-media thickness: the Bogalusa Heart Study

2008 • 192 citations

An ecological systems approach to examining risk factors for early childhood overweight: findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study

2008 • 189 citations

Childhood overweight and obesity prevalences levelling off in Stockholm but socioeconomic differences persist

2008 • 182 citations

Iron deficiency and obesity: the contribution of inflammation and diminished iron absorption

2009 • 181 citations

Body Mass Index Differences in Pseudohypoparathyroidism Type 1aVersusPseudopseudohypoparathyroidism May Implicate Paternal Imprinting of Gαs in the Development of Human Obesity

2006 • 176 citations

Exploring the Developmental Overnutrition Hypothesis Using Parental–Offspring Associations and FTO as an Instrumental Variable

2008 • 176 citations

Obesity in children. Part 1: Epidemiology, measurement, risk factors, and screening

2008 • 175 citations

Prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MS) in children and adolescents with varying degrees of obesity

2007 • 173 citations

Evaluation of a National Physical Activity Intervention for Children

2007 • 168 citations

Maternal macronutrient and energy intakes in pregnancy and offspring intake at 10 y: exploring parental comparisons and prenatal effects

2010 • 168 citations

The prevalence of hypovitaminosis D and secondary hyperparathyroidism in obese Black Americans

2006 • 162 citations

Sensitivity and specificity of classification systems for fatness in adolescents

2004 • 160 citations

Randomized, Controlled Trial of a Best-Practice Individualized Behavioral Program for Treatment of Childhood Overweight: Scottish Childhood Overweight Treatment Trial (SCOTT)

2008 • 158 citations

Changing incidence of slipped capital femoral epiphysis

2007 • 157 citations

Weight Gain in Obese and Nonobese Adolescent Girls Initiating Depot Medroxyprogesterone, Oral Contraceptive Pills, or No Hormonal Contraceptive Method

2006 • 151 citations

VERB - a social marketing campaign to increase physical activity among youth.

2004 • 146 citations

Reduction of Overweight and Eating Disorder Symptoms via the Internet in Adolescents: A Randomized Controlled Trial

2008 • 145 citations

Patient Characteristics as Predictors of Weight Loss after an Obesity Treatment for Children*

2006 • 143 citations

A Randomized Breast-feeding Promotion Intervention Did Not Reduce Child Obesity in Belarus

2008 • 143 citations

Children's Residential Weight-Loss Programs Can Work: A Prospective Cohort Study of Short-Term Outcomes for Overweight and Obese Children

2005 • 141 citations

American Heart Association Childhood Obesity Research Summit Report

2009 • 140 citations

Adolescent fast food and restaurant ordering behavior with and without calorie and fat content menu information

2005 • 140 citations

A Novel Melanocortin 3 Receptor Gene (MC3R) Mutation Associated with Severe Obesity

2002 • 137 citations

Hyperghrelinemia Precedes Obesity in Prader-Willi Syndrome

2008 • 134 citations

Associations of size at birth and dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry measures of lean and fat mass at 9 to 10 y of age

2006 • 123 citations

Comparison of Two Hypocaloric Diets in Obese Children

1993 • 117 citations

Pubertal development in obese children and adolescents

2007 • 115 citations

BMI Measurement in Schools

2009 • 113 citations

Energy Expenditure, Energy Intake and Prevalence of Obesity after Therapy for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia during Childhood

2000 • 110 citations

Co-occurrence of Two Partially Inactivating Polymorphisms of MC3R Is Associated With Pediatric-Onset Obesity

2005 • 108 citations

Weight Loss in Overweight Mexican American Children: A Randomized, Controlled Trial

2007 • 104 citations

How Does Body Fat Influence Bone Mass in Childhood? A Mendelian Randomization Approach

2008 • 94 citations

Effects of a Twelve-Week Randomized Intervention of Exercise and/or Diet on Weight Loss and Weight Maintenance, and Other Metabolic Parameters in Obese Preadolescent Children

2009 • 92 citations

Do Childhood Sleeping Problems Predict Obesity in Young Adulthood? Evidence from a Prospective Birth Cohort Study

2007 • 92 citations

Inpatient treatment of obese children: a multicomponent programme without stringent calorie restriction

2003 • 91 citations

Early overweight and pubertal maturation—pathways of association with young adults’ overweight: a longitudinal study

2008 • 80 citations

Low‐carbohydrate (low & high‐fat) versus high‐carbohydrate low‐fat diets in the treatment of obesity in adolescents

2008 • 77 citations

Is there a further acceleration in the age at onset of menarche? A cross-sectional study in 1840 school children focusing on age and bodyweight at the onset of menarche

2008 • 76 citations

Medications Associated with Weight Gain

2005 • 71 citations

A Critical Appraisal of Evidence Supporting a Bariatric Surgical Approach to Weight Management for Adolescents

2005 • 70 citations

Endocrinology of female puberty

2009 • 68 citations

Weight loss and growth velocity in obese children after very low calorie diet, exercise, and behavior modification

2000 • 68 citations

Impaired Prohormone Convertases in Cpe fat/Cpe fat Mice

2001 • 64 citations

The Yellow Mouse Obesity Syndrome and Mechanisms of Agouti‐Induced Obesity

1999 • 63 citations

Obesity and Asthma

2008 • 62 citations

Prevention of overweight in preschool children: results of kindergarten-based interventions

2009 • 61 citations

Classical Endocrine Diseases Causing Obesity

2008 • 60 citations

Lessons Learned While Implementing a Legislated School Policy: Body Mass Index Assessments Among Arkansas’s Public School Students

2007 • 59 citations

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in the Adolescent

2009 • 58 citations

Mutations in the Amino-Terminal Region of Proopiomelanocortin (POMC) in Patients with Early-Onset Obesity Impair POMC Sorting to the Regulated Secretory Pathway

2008 • 57 citations

Did Augmenting the VERB™ Campaign Advertising in Select Communities Have an Effect on Awareness, Attitudes, and Physical Activity?

2008 • 56 citations

Weight loss and growth velocity in obese children after very low calorie diet, exercise, and behavior modification

2000 • 52 citations

Review of physiology, clinical manifestations, and management of hypothalamic obesity in humans

2008 • 50 citations

Dietetic Management of Pediatric Overweight: Development and Description of a Practical and Evidence-Based Behavioral Approach

2005 • 45 citations

Obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome in morbidly obese children with tibia vara

2005 • 44 citations

Physical activity of Canadian and American children: a focus on youth in Amish, Mennonite, and modern cultures

2008 • 26 citations

Rose's Strategy of Preventive Medicine

2008 • 21 citations

Population-Wide Adverse Dietary Patterns: A Pivotal Cause of Epidemic Coronary Heart Disease/Cardiovascular Disease

2008 • 8 citations

Changing influences on childhood obesity: a study of two generations of the 1958 British birth cohort

2009 • 7 citations

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1955 • 0 citations