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ReviewFrontiers in pediatrics2020

Physical Activity in the Prevention of Childhood Obesity: The Position of the European Childhood Obesity Group and the European Academy of Pediatrics.

Justyna Wyszyńska, Susanne Ring-Dimitriou, David Thivel, Daniel Weghuber, Adamos Hadjipanayis, Zachi Grossman, Robert Ross-Russell, Katarzyna Dereń, Artur Mazur

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Review in Frontiers in pediatrics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 100 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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100citing papers in PubMed, 7 pooled it
10.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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

100 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 156 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 7 institutions in 7 countries.

Justyna WyszyńskaMedical College of Rzeszów University, Rzeszów, Poland.
Susanne Ring-DimitriouEuropean Childhood Obesity Group, Brussels, Belgium.
David ThivelEuropean Childhood Obesity Group, Brussels, Belgium.
Daniel WeghuberEuropean Childhood Obesity Group, Brussels, Belgium.
Adamos HadjipanayisMedical School, European University Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus.
Zachi GrossmanAdelson School of Medicine, Ariel University, Ariel, Israel.
Robert Ross-RussellEuropean Academy of Paediatrics, Brussels, Belgium.
Katarzyna DereńMedical College of Rzeszów University, Rzeszów, Poland.
Artur MazurMedical College of Rzeszów University, Rzeszów, Poland.
Rzeszów University · PLThe European Academy of Gynaecological Surgery · BEEuropean University Cyprus · CYMaccabi Health Care Services · ILParacelsus Medical University · ATUniversité Clermont Auvergne · FRUniversity of Salzburg · AT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Obesity affects an increasing number of children and adolescents. Physical activity (PA) is a significant factor in the prevention of excessive body mass in the pediatric population. A significant percentage of pediatric population do not attain the public health recommendation for PA, and typically, those with higher levels of PA have lower content of body fat than less active peers. Although the development of childhood obesity is multifactorial, the decline in energy expenditure is considered as one of the most important determinants of excessive body weight. The lack of intervention causes that excess body weight to remain stable from birth through childhood and adolescence to adulthood. Accordingly, public health interventions are needed to increase the level of PA in the pediatric population. The task force from the European Childhood Obesity Group and the European Academy of Pediatrics reviewed English language meta-analyses, systematic reviews, randomized clinical trials, and observational studies from PubMed/MEDLINE, Cochrane Library, Science Direct, MEDLINE, and EBSCO databases, from 2018 to August 2020, and developed a consensus statement. This statement presents the role of PA in the prevention of excessive body weight and gives age-appropriate recommendations for PA and recommendations for school-based interventions, parents, and guardians.

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adolescentchildrenobesityphysical activityrecommendation

Identifiers

PMID33224905
PMCPMC7674497
OpenAlexW3095953467

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