ArticleJournal of obesity2012
Need for early interventions in the prevention of pediatric overweight: a review and upcoming directions.
Article in Journal of obesity, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 76 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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76 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 184 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Multi-site trial using short mobile messages (SMS) to improve infant weight in low-income minorities: Development, implementation, lessons learned and future applications.Contemporary clinical trials · 2017Trial
- Rapid Infancy Weight Gain and 7- to 9-year Childhood Obesity Risk: A Prospective Cohort Study in Rural Western China.Medicine · 2016Trial
- Relationship between parent demographic characteristics, perinatal and early childhood behaviors, and body mass index among preschool-age children.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2015Trial
- Tools for teen moms to reduce infant obesity: a randomized clinical trial.BMC public health · 2015Trial
- Low-protein formula slows weight gain in infants of overweight mothers.Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition · 2014Trial
- Growing Right Onto Wellness (GROW): a family-centered, community-based obesity prevention randomized controlled trial for preschool child-parent pairs.Contemporary clinical trials · 2013Trial
- Effect of a Multi-Site Trial using Short Message Service (SMS) on Infant Feeding Practices and Weight Gain in Low-Income Minorities.Journal of the American College of NutritionTrial
- Poor Water Quality and Food Insecurity in Ecuador: Disparities in Exposure and Associations With Young Child Feeding Practices.Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics · 2026Article
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6 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Childhood obesity is currently one of the most prevailing and challenging public health issues among industrialized countries and of international priority. The global prevalence of obesity poses such a serious concern that the World Health Organization (WHO) has described it as a "global epidemic." Recent literature suggests that the genesis of the problem occurs in the first years of life as feeding patterns, dietary habits, and parental feeding practices are established. Obesity prevention evidence points to specific dietary factors, such as the promotion of breastfeeding and appropriate introduction of nutritious complementary foods, but also calls for attention to parental feeding practices, awareness of appropriate responses to infant hunger and satiety cues, physical activity/inactivity behaviors, infant sleep duration, and family meals. Interventions that begin at birth, targeting multiple factors related to healthy growth, have not been adequately studied. Due to the overwhelming importance and global significance of excess weight within pediatric populations, this narrative review was undertaken to summarize factors associated with overweight and obesity among infants and toddlers, with focus on potentially modifiable risk factors beginning at birth, and to address the need for early intervention prevention.
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