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ReviewCurrent obesity reports2015

Overweight and Obesity: Prevalence, Consequences, and Causes of a Growing Public Health Problem.

Ellen P Williams, Marie Mesidor, Karen Winters, Patricia M Dubbert, Sharon B Wyatt

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Review in Current obesity reports, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 388 papers, 11 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

388 citing papers in PubMed, 11 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. Biopsychosocial and Environmental Factors That Impact Brain-Gut-Microbiome Interactions in Obesity.Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association · 2026
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  5. Associations Between the Built Environment and Adult Obesity and the Mediating Role of Physical Activity: A Systematic Review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025
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  6. New Perspectives in Modulating the Entero-Insular Axis in Pediatric Obesity.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Ellen P WilliamsUniversity of Mississippi Medical Center, 2500 North State Street, Jackson, MS, 39216, USA. eewilliams@umc.edu.
Marie MesidorHealth Promotion & Disease Prevention Program, Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System, 4300 West 7th Street, Little Rock, AR, 72205, USA. Marie.Mesidor@va.gov.
Karen WintersUniversity of Mississippi Medical Center, 2500 North State Street, Jackson, MS, 39216, USA. kwinters@umc.edu.
Patricia M DubbertSouth Central Veterans Affairs Mental Illness Research, Education & Clinical Center, Little Rock Geriatric Research, Education & Clinical Center, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, 2200 Fort Roots Drive, North Little Rock, AR, 72114, USA. Patricia.Dubbert@va.gov.
Sharon B WyattUniversity of Mississippi Medical Center, 2500 North State Street, Jackson, MS, 39216, USA. swyatt@umc.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This review considers a variety of perspectives on overweight and obesity (OW/obesity), including measurement and classification; prevalence and changes in prevalence in recent years; genetic, biological, medical, individual, and social correlates of OW/obesity; and treatment approaches. Despite increased attention, OW/obesity is escalating in prevalence worldwide, and the causes are exceedingly complex. A range of innovative studies, including basic research on gut microflora, dietary composition, pharmacologic interventions, and surgical procedures, is generating findings with potential for future prevention and treatment of OW/obesity. Social system changes such as school programs and the awareness of the roles of personal, family, health provider, and cultural experiences related to OW/obesity have also gained traction for vital prevention and treatment efforts over the past decade.

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Body Mass IndexDietLife StylePublic HealthHumansObesityOverweightPrevalenceRisk FactorsSocioeconomic FactorsObesityOverweightTreatmentTrends

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PMID26627494

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