SynthesisObesity facts2022
The Global Spread of Severe Obesity in Toddlers, Children, and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
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35 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 52 citations in OpenAlex.
- Adolescent obesity and risk of serious chronic morbidity and mortality in young adulthood: a systematic review of cohorts from national registries.Cardiovascular diabetology · 2026Pooled it
- Transition of Care for Adolescents and Young Adults Living with Obesity: A Systematic Review with Indirect Evidence from Conditions Deemed Being Transferable.Obesity facts · 2025Pooled it
- Surgery for the treatment of obesity in children and adolescents.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
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- The effectiveness of a 10-week family-focused e-Health healthy lifestyle program for school-aged children with overweight or obesity: a randomised control trial.BMC public health · 2025Trial
- Sex differences in response to a short-term training program intervention in obese adolescents: a plasma metabolomics study.Biology of sex differences · 2026Article
- From Risks to Roots: The Multifactorial Etiopathogenesis of Childhood Obesity.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Development and external validation of an interpretable machine learning-based model for obesity risk prediction in 2-18-year-old children and adolescents in Beijing and Tangshan.Journal of global health · 2026Article
- Sex-Specific BMI Trajectories in Young People With Type 1 Diabetes: A 20-Year Retrospective Regional Audit.Pediatric diabetes · 2026Article
- Trends in adolescent obesity in the Arab ethnic minority in Israel: an age-period-cohort analysis.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Obesity‑related kidney disease: a review on ultrasound applications.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2025Review
- Associations of physical activity intensity and specific sedentary behaviors during after-school and weekend with overweight and obesity among preschool children.BMC pediatrics · 2025Article
- Outbreak of Severe Obesity and Metabolic Complications in Children and Adolescents Using the Korea National School Health Examination (KNSHE) From 2017 to 2021.Journal of Korean medical science · 2025Article
- Police Fitness: An International Perspective on Current and Future Challenges.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
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- Clinical symptoms and epidemiological survey of early-onset severe obesity among children and adolescents.Pakistan journal of medical sciences · 2025Article
- Black Children's Perceptions of Parental Support and Parenting Practices: 6-Month Weight Loss and Retention in a Pediatric Weight Management Program.Obesity science & practice · 2025Article
- The evolving landscape of pediatric obesity and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Review
- Severe Obesity Defined by Percentiles of WHO and Cardiometabolic Risk in Youth with Obesity.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The age of the obesity onset is a very important factor for the development of metabolic complications and cardiovascular risk in children and adolescents with severe obesity.European journal of pediatrics · 2024Article
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Abstract
introductionSevere obesity among children and adolescents has emerged as a public health concern in multiple places around the world.
methodsWe searched the Medline database for articles on severe obesity rates in children published between January 1960 and January 2020. For studies with available prevalence rates for an early and a more recent time period, the relative increase in prevalence was imputed.
resultsIn total, 874 publications were identified, of which 38 contained relevant epidemiological data. Rates of severe obesity varied significantly according to age, gender, geographic area, and the definition of severe obesity. The highest rates of class II and III obesity in the USA according to the Centers of Disease Control cut-off were 9.5% and 4.5%, respectively. Seventeen studies reported prevalence rates in at least two time periods. Data for 9,190,718 individuals showed a 1.71 (95% CI, 1.53-1.90) greater odds for severe obesity in 2006-2017 (N = 5,029,584) versus 1967-2007 (N = 4,161,134). In an analysis limited to studies from 1980s with a minimum follow-up of 20 years, a 9.16 (95% CI, 7.76-10.80) greater odds for severe obesity in recent versus earlier time was found. An analysis limited to studies from 2000, with a follow-up of 5-15 years, a 1.09 (95% CI, 0.99-1.20) greater odds was noted when comparing (2011-2017; N = 4,991,831) versus (2000-2011; N = 4,134,340).
conclusionSevere pediatric obesity is escalating with a marked increase from the 1980s and a slower rate from 2000.
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