ReviewCurrent obesity reports2018
Early Childhood Obesity Risk Factors: Socioeconomic Adversity, Family Dysfunction, Offspring Distress, and Junk Food Self-Medication.
Review in Current obesity reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06616467 (Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention Targeting Mothers to Increase Tummy Time Practice and Maintain Healthy Weight in Infants), which is not on this map. Cited by 104 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention Targeting Mothers to Increase Tummy Time Practice and Maintain Healthy Weight in Infants
Who cites it
104 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 257 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Childhood Obesity Evidence Base Project: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of a New Taxonomy of Intervention Components to Improve Weight Status in Children 2-5 Years of Age, 2005-2019.Childhood obesity (Print) · 2020Pooled it
- Intervention for Children with Obesity and Overweight and Motor Delays from Low-Income Families: Fostering Engagement, Motor Development, Self-Perceptions, and Playtime.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Trial
- Child temperament predicts the adiposity rebound. A 9-year prospective sibling control study.PloS one · 2018Trial
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- Genetic influences, lifestyle and psychosocial aspects in relation to metabolically healthy obesity and conversion to a metabolically unhealthy state.Diabetes, obesity & metabolism · 2025Article
- Spatial patterns of childhood obesity clusters linked to socioeconomic inequalities.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- FACILITY: feeding the family-the intergenerational approach to fight obesity, a cross-sectional study protocol.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Article
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Abstract
purpose of reviewTo explore the sequence and interaction of infancy and early childhood risk factors, particularly relating to disturbances in the social environment, and how the consequences of such exposures can promote weight gain and obesity. RECENT
findingsThis review will argue that socioeconomic adversity is a key upstream catalyst that sets the stage for critical midstream risk factors such as family strain and dysfunction, offspring insecurity, stress, emotional turmoil, low self-esteem, and poor mental health. These midstream risk factors, particularly stress and emotional turmoil, create a more or less perfect foil for calorie-dense junk food self-medication and subtle addiction, to alleviate uncomfortable psychological and emotional states. Disturbances in the social environment during infancy and early childhood appear to play a critical role in weight gain and obesity, through such mechanisms as insecurity, stress, and emotional turmoil, eventually leading to junk food self-medication and subtle addiction.
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