ReviewCurrent obesity reports2017
Early-Life Obesity Prevention: Critique of Intervention Trials During the First One Thousand Days.
Review in Current obesity reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 15 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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INFANT HEALTH- Supporting Infants' Mental Health and Healthy Weight Development Through Community Health Nurses' Promoting Sensitive Parenting
Bimbingamba Zerosix Third Phase: Studying Communities
Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The effectiveness of interventions during the first 1,000 days to improve energy balance-related behaviors or prevent overweight/obesity in children from socio-economically disadvantaged families of high-income countries: a systematic review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2023Pooled it
- Addressing obesity in the first 1000 days in high risk infants: Systematic review.Maternal & child nutrition · 2021Pooled it
- Garden-based interventions and early childhood health: an umbrella review.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2020Pooled it
- Developing a core outcome set for childhood obesity prevention: A systematic review.Maternal & child nutrition · 2019Pooled it
- Managing Obesity in Young Children: A Multiple Methods Study Assessing Feasibility, Acceptability, and Implementation of a Multicomponent, Family-Based Intervention.Childhood obesity (Print) · 2022Trial
- Investigating the moderators and mediators of an effective sleep intervention in the Prevention of Overweight in Infancy (POI) randomized controlled trial: Exploratory analyses.Clinical obesity · 2022Trial
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- Standardisation of bioimpedance assessment in young children: a feasibility study of home-based body composition measurement in Danish two-year-olds.Preventive medicine reports · 2025Article
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- Challenges to Establish Effective Public-Private Partnerships to Address Malnutrition in All Its Forms.International journal of health policy and management · 2021Review
- Long-Term Follow-Up of a Randomized Controlled Trial to Reduce Excessive Weight Gain in Infancy: Protocol for the Prevention of Overweight in Infancy (POI) Follow-Up Study at 11 Years.JMIR research protocols · 2020Article
- Tracking of obesity among 2- to 9-year-olds in an electronic heath record database from 2006 to 2018.Obesity science & practice · 2020Article
- Reducing fetal origins of childhood obesity through maternal smoking cessation during pregnancy: an intervention study.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2019Article
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Abstract
purpose of reviewTo critique the evidence from recent and ongoing obesity prevention interventions in the first 1000 days in order to identify evidence gaps and weaknesses, and to make suggestions for more informative future intervention trials. RECENT
findingsCompleted and ongoing intervention trials have had fairly modest effects, have been limited largely to high-income countries, and have used relatively short-term interventions and outcomes. Comparison of the evidence from completed prevention trials with the evidence from systematic reviews of behavioral risk factors shows that some life-course stages have been neglected (pre-conception and toddlerhood), and that interventions have neglected to target some important behavioral risk factors (maternal smoking during pregnancy, infant and child sleep). Finally, while obesity prevention interventions aim to modify body composition, few intervention trials have used body composition measures as outcomes, and this has limited their sensitivity to detect intervention effects. The new WHO Healthy Lifestyles Trajectory (HeLTI) initiative should address some of these weaknesses. Future early obesity prevention trials should be much more ambitious. They should, ideally: extend their interventions over the first 1000 days; have longer-term (childhood) outcomes, and improved outcome measures (body composition measures in addition to proxies for body composition such as the BMI for age); have greater emphasis on maternal smoking and child sleep; be global.
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