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ReviewGlobal pediatric health2019

Childhood and Adolescent Obesity in the United States: A Public Health Concern.

Adekunle Sanyaolu, Chuku Okorie, Xiaohua Qi, Jennifer Locke, Saif Rehman

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Review in Global pediatric health, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 224 papers, 11 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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224citing papers in PubMed, 11 pooled it
36.8field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

224 citing papers in PubMed, 11 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 455 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. "Competitive" food and beverage policies and weight status: A systematic review of the evidence among sociodemographic subgroups.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Adekunle SanyaoluFederal Ministry of Health, Abuja, Nigeria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6265-665X
Chuku OkorieEssex County College, Newark, NJ, USA.
Xiaohua QiSaint James School of Medicine, Anguilla, British West Indies.
Jennifer LockeSaint James School of Medicine, Anguilla, British West Indies.
Saif RehmanSaint James School of Medicine, Anguilla, British West Indies.
Essex County College · USFederal Ministry of Health · NG

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Childhood and adolescent obesity have reached epidemic levels in the United States. Currently, about 17% of US children are presenting with obesity. Obesity can affect all aspects of the children including their psychological as well as cardiovascular health; also, their overall physical health is affected. The association between obesity and other conditions makes it a public health concern for children and adolescents. Due to the increase in the prevalence of obesity among children, a variety of research studies have been conducted to discover what associations and risk factors increase the probability that a child will present with obesity. While a complete picture of all the risk factors associated with obesity remains elusive, the combination of diet, exercise, physiological factors, and psychological factors is important in the control and prevention of childhood obesity; thus, all researchers agree that prevention is the key strategy for controlling the current problem. Primary prevention methods are aimed at educating the child and family, as well as encouraging appropriate diet and exercise from a young age through adulthood, while secondary prevention is targeted at lessening the effect of childhood obesity to prevent the child from continuing the unhealthy habits and obesity into adulthood. A combination of both primary and secondary prevention is necessary to achieve the best results. This review article highlights the health implications including physiological and psychological factors comorbidities, as well as the epidemiology, risk factors, prevention, and control of childhood and adolescent obesity in the United States.

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adolescentsBMIbody mass indexchildhoodobesityUnited States

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PMID31832491
PMCPMC6887808
OpenAlexW2992565440

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