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  2. Expert Committee Recommendations Regarding the Prevention, Assessment, and Treatment of Child and Adolescent Overweight and Obesity: Summary Report

    Sarah E. Barlow · 2007 · PEDIATRICS · 4,547 citations

    To revise 1998 recommendations on childhood obesity, an Expert Committee, comprised of representatives from 15 professional organizations, appointed experienced scientists and clinicians to 3 writing groups to review the literature and recommend approaches to prevention, assessment, and treatment. Because effective strategies remain poorly defined, the writing groups used both available evidence and expert opinion to develop the recommendations. Primary care providers should universally assess children for obesity risk to improve early identification of elevated BMI, medical risks, and unhealthy eating and physical activity habits. Providers can provide obesity prevention messages for most c

  3. Predicting Obesity in Young Adulthood from Childhood and Parental Obesity

    Robert C. Whitaker, Jeffrey A. Wright, Margaret S. Pepe, et al. · 1997 · New England Journal of Medicine · 4,422 citations

    Background Childhood obesity increases the risk of obesity in adulthood, but how parental obesity affects the chances of a child's becoming an obese adult is unknown. We investigated the risk of obesity in young adulthood associated with both obesity in childhood and obesity in one or both parents.

  4. Interventions for preventing obesity in children

    Tamara Brown, Theresa HM Moore, Lee Hooper, et al. · 2019 · Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews · 3,026 citations

    EDITORIAL NOTE: See https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD015328.pub2, https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD015330.pub2 and https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD015326.pub2 for more recent reviews that cover this topic. BACKGROUND: Prevention of childhood obesity is an international public health priority given the significant impact of obesity on acute and chronic diseases, general health, development and well-being. The international evidence base for strategies to prevent obesity is very large and is accumulating rapidly. This is an update of a previous review. OBJECTIVES: To determine the effectiveness of a range of interventions that include diet or physical activity components, or both, desig

  5. Family-based childhood obesity prevention interventions: a systematic review and quantitative content analysis

    Tayla von Ash, Alen Agaronov, Ta’Loria Young, et al. · 2017 · International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity · 291 citations

    BACKGROUND: A wide range of interventions has been implemented and tested to prevent obesity in children. Given parents' influence and control over children's energy-balance behaviors, including diet, physical activity, media use, and sleep, family interventions are a key strategy in this effort. The objective of this study was to profile the field of recent family-based childhood obesity prevention interventions by employing systematic review and quantitative content analysis methods to identify gaps in the knowledge base. METHODS: Using a comprehensive search strategy, we searched the PubMed, PsycIFO, and CINAHL databases to identify eligible interventions aimed at preventing childhood obe

  7. A systematic analysis of childhood obesity prevention interventions targeting Hispanic children: lessons learned from the previous decade

    Paul Branscum, Manoj Sharma · 2010 · Obesity Reviews · 87 citations

    Hispanic children suffer from the highest overall rates of prevalence for overweight and obesity in the US. In the last decade some interventions for prevention of childhood obesity have been developed and tailored to target this subgroup. The purpose of this review is to systematically analyze and summarize findings for health education and promotion interventions aimed at the prevention of childhood overweight and obesity among primarily Hispanic children. A systematic review of PubMed, CINAHL, and ERIC was done for the time period 2000 to May 2010. A posteriori effect size for the primary outcome of each intervention was calculated using G*Power. A total of nine interventions were located

  8. Evaluation of complex community‐based childhood obesity prevention interventions

    Derin Karacabeyli, Steven Allender, Susan Pinkney, et al. · 2018 · Obesity Reviews · 64 citations

    BACKGROUND: Multi-setting, multi-component community-based interventions have shown promise in preventing childhood obesity; however, evaluation of these complex interventions remains a challenge. OBJECTIVE: The objective of the study is to systematically review published methodological approaches to outcome evaluation for multi-setting community-based childhood obesity prevention interventions and synthesize a set of pragmatic recommendations. METHODS: MEDLINE, CINAHL and PsycINFO were searched from inception to 6 July 2017. Papers were included if the intervention targeted children ≤18 years, engaged at least two community sectors and described their outcome evaluation methodology. A singl

  9. Childhood Obesity Prevention Interventions in Childcare Settings: Systematic Review of Randomized and Nonrandomized Controlled Trials

    Yuan Zhou, Janice S. Emerson, Robert S. Levine, et al. · 2013 · American Journal of Health Promotion · 60 citations

    OBJECTIVE: Childcare settings are an opportune location for early intervention programs seeking to prevent childhood obesity. This article reports on a systematic review of controlled trials of obesity prevention interventions in childcare settings. DATA SOURCE: The review was limited to English language articles published in PubMed, Web of Science, and Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) between January 2000 and April 2012. INCLUSION CRITERIA: childhood obesity prevention interventions in childcare settings using controlled designs that reported adiposity and behavior outcomes. EXCLUSION CRITERIA: no interventions, non-childcare settings, clinical weight loss programs, non-English

  11. Engaging Coalitions in Community-Based Childhood Obesity Prevention Interventions: A Mixed Methods Assessment

    Ariella R. Korn, Erin Hennessy, Alison Tovar, et al. · 2018 · Childhood Obesity · 51 citations

    BACKGROUND: Childhood obesity prevention interventions have engaged coalitions in study design, implementation, and/or evaluation to improve research outcomes; yet, no systematic reviews have been conducted on this topic. This mixed methods review aims to characterize the processes and dynamics of coalition engagement in community-based childhood obesity prevention interventions. METHODS: Data Sources: Studies extracted from Ovid MEDLINE, PubMed, and Web of Science; complementary original survey and interview data among researchers of included studies. Eligible Studies: Multisetting community-based obesity prevention interventions in high-income countries targeting children 0-12 years with a

  12. Environmental components of childhood obesity prevention interventions: an overview of systematic reviews

    Daniel Cauchi, Ketevan Glonti, Mark Petticrew, et al. · 2016 · Obesity Reviews · 41 citations

    Childhood obesity has a complex multi-factorial aetiology grounded in environmental and individual level factors that affect behaviour and outcomes. An ecological, systems-based approach to addressing childhood obesity is increasingly being advocated. The primary aim of this review is to summarize the evidence reported in systematic reviews on the effectiveness of population-level childhood obesity prevention interventions that have an environmental component. We conducted a systematic review of reviews published since 1995, employing a standardized search strategy in nine databases. Inclusion criteria required that reviews be systematic and evaluated at least one population-level, environme

  19. Assessing the Impact of Early Childhood Intervention Programs on Obesity Prevention: A comparative study

    Fatima Tariq, Salman Tahir, Shahjahan Raza Gardezi, et al. · 2024 · DEVELOPMENTAL MEDICO-LIFE-SCIENCES

    Background: Childhood obesity is a major global health concern with long-term implications. Early intervention programs (EIPs) have been developed to address this problem, emphasizing nutrition, physical activity, and behavior change. However, the comparative effectiveness of different types of EIPs remains unclear. Objectives: The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of several EIPs to reduce Body Mass Index (BMI), improve dietary habits, and increase physical activity among children 4 to 12 years of age. Methods: This comparative study was conducted in schools and pediatric clinics in Lahore, Pakistan from February 2022 to June 2023. The current study included 550 children di

  21. Abstract CN10-03: Childhood obesity and leukemia: Opportunities for intervention

    Steven D. Mittelman · 2015 · Cancer Prevention Research

    Abstract Obesity is a major contributor to cancer mortality, and is responsible for ~90,000 cancer deaths per year in the U.S. Part of this association can be attributed to the effect of obesity to increase cancer incidence, while obesity has been shown to worsen the outcome from a number of types of cancer. Retrospective studies have shown that obese children diagnosed with the high-risk form of the most common childhood cancer, acute lymphoblastic leukemia (HR-ALL) have a substantially higher risk of relapse than lean children. We have investigated these associations, generating laboratory models to investigate how obesity might impact ALL progression and trea

  22. Obesity intervention on the healthy lifestyle in childhood: results of the PRESTO (PrEvention STudy of Obesity) Study

    Sabine Dietrich, Angelo Pietrobelli, Sabine Dämon, et al. · 2008 · Italian Journal of Public Health

    Background: Due to increasing problems with childhood and adolescent obesity in Austria PRESTO (PrEvention STudy of Obesity) created a school based intervention program for promoting a healthy lifestyle in Austrian youth. Methods: PRESTO was carried out by a multi-disciplinary team including a physician, a psychologist, a nutritionist and an exercise physiologist. The study was carried out in 12 first grade school classes in Austria (2002-2004), mainly in Vienna (N=260). The control group consisted of 231 subjects. Medical examinations were performed and the participantsf knowledge on good nutrition and dietary habits were collected. Twelve nutrition sessions, one hour per week in each cl

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