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ReviewDiabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy2016

Childhood obesity: prevention is better than cure.

Aakash Pandita, Deepak Sharma, Dharti Pandita, Smita Pawar, Mir Tariq, Avinash Kaul

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Review in Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 103 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

103 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. Economic burden of childhood overweight and obesity: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2023
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  6. Unravelling the association between accelerometer-derived physical activity and adiposity among preschool children: A systematic review and meta-analyses.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Aakash PanditaDepartment of Pediatrics, SMGS Hospital Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
Deepak SharmaDepartment of Pediatrics, Pt Bhagwat Dayal Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana, India.
Dharti PanditaDepartment of Microbiology Jammu University, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
Smita PawarDepartment of OBG Fernandez Hospital, Hyderabad,Telangana, India.
Mir TariqDepartment of Orthopedics, Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai, India.
Avinash KaulDepartment of Surgery, Acharya Shri Chander College of Medical Sciences and Hospital, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Obesity and its associated comorbidities have emerged as a major health problem garnering interests from both public health agencies and mainstream media consumers. With increasing awareness on its impact on health, finances, and community at large, it has come to the forefront for scientific research and development of health plans. The need for better strategies and novel interventions to manage obesity is now being recognized by the entire health care system. Obesity and overweight is now the fifth leading global risk factor for mortality. Strategic investment is thus urgently needed to implement population-based childhood obesity prevention programmes which are effective and also culturally appropriate. Population-based prevention is crucial to stem this rising tide of childhood obesity which is fast reaching epidemic proportions. Obesity has its onset very early in life; therefore, children constitute a major group of this disease. It is thus imperative to lay utmost importance on prevention of obesity in children and herald its progress, if present already. Furthermore, treatment is still in preliminary stage, so early prevention holds better than treatment at later stages. This article is an attempt to lay emphasis on childhood obesity as a problem that needs to be recognized early and measures for its prevention.

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assessmentbody mass indexnutrition assessmentobesityoverweightpreventiontreatment

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PMID27042133
PMCPMC4801195

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