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ArticleChildhood obesity (Print)

Accelerated Summer Weight Gain in a Low-Income, Ethnically Diverse Sample of Elementary School Children in Massachusetts.

Lindsay A Tanskey, Jeanne P Goldberg, Kenneth Chui, Aviva Must, Jennifer M Sacheck

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Article in Childhood obesity (Print). The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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20citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 37 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Free summer programming on elementary-aged children's food and beverage consumption: a randomized clinical trial.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2025
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  15. Children's moderate-to-vigorous physical activity on weekdays versus weekend days: a multi-country analysis.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2021
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  17. The impact of summer vacation on children's obesogenic behaviors and body mass index: a natural experiment.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2020
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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 at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Lindsay A Tanskey1 Department of Food, Bioprocessing, and Nutrition Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.
Jeanne P Goldberg2 Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston, MA.
Kenneth Chui3 Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA.
Aviva Must3 Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA.
Jennifer M Sacheck4 Department of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC.
Tufts University · USGeorge Washington University · USNorth Carolina State University · US

Funding

Understanding the Impact of School-Based Physical Activity ProgramsR01HD080180 · NICHD · TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON · PI SACHECK, JENNIFER · 2014 to 2017
$1.9M
NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD080180
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

PovertySeasonsWeight GainChildDietEthnicityExerciseFemaleHumansMaleMassachusettsPediatric Obesitybody mass indexchild obesityout-of-school timeseasonsummerweight gain

Identifiers

PMID30888836
PMCPMC6909732
OpenAlexW2924841882

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