ReviewCurrent obesity reports2021
Contextualising Eating Disorder Concerns for Paediatric Obesity Treatment.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 16 citations in OpenAlex.
- A systematic mapping review of individual participant factors related to eating disorder risk collected in behavioural weight management trials.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2026Pooled it
- Eating disorder risk during behavioral weight management in adults with overweight or obesity: A systematic review with meta-analysis.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2023Pooled it
- Long-term results of a digital treatment tool as an add-on to pediatric obesity lifestyle treatment: a 3-year pragmatic clinical trial.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2025Trial
- Parent involvement approach and changes in eating pathology within an adolescent obesity intervention.Eating behaviors · 2023Trial
- Progressing Cross-Sector Collaboration for People With Eating Disorders and Higher Weight: Priority Actions From an Expert Roundtable Using a Modified Nominal Group Technique.The Medical journal of Australia · 2026Article
- Facets of Dietary Restraint Associated With Disordered Eating Behaviors Among Children and Adolescents With Higher Weight.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2026Article
- Eating Disorders In weight-related Therapy (EDIT) Collaboration: rationale and study design.Nutrition research reviews · 2024Review
- Predicting and comparing the long-term impact of lifestyle interventions on individuals with eating disorders in active population: a machine learning evaluation.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
- Child and adolescent obesity.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2023Review
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- Identifying Factors Which Influence Eating Disorder Risk during Behavioral Weight Management: A Consensus Study.Nutrients · 2023Article
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- Obesity in children and adolescents: epidemiology, causes, assessment, and management.The lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology · 2022Review
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Abstract
purpose of reviewEating disorders are complex mental health conditions that share risk factors with obesity. This review outlines the context for concerns that paediatric obesity treatment presents a risk for eating disorder development. RECENT
findingsMost children and adolescents undergoing professionally supervised obesity treatment will have improvements or no change to eating disorder risk profiles. However, some may subsequently develop a clinical eating disorder, and this is proposed to relate to weight-focussed dietary interventions that are standard in paediatric obesity treatment. Nevertheless, dietary restraint may not be a strong predictor of eating disorder risk in the context of paediatric obesity treatment. Most international guidelines recommend weight maintenance or weight loss as a treatment goal, and weight loss is related to improvements in cardiometabolic health but not eating disorder risk in the short term. The risk of inducing or exacerbating an eating disorder during paediatric weight management is likely to be low; however, the serious consequences combined with increasing scale of obesity treatment, and lack of empirical evidence, are of concern. There is a need for further research to identify long-term predictors of eating disorder development for children and adolescents who seek treatment for their obesity.
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