ArticlePediatrics2022
Changes in the Incidence of Childhood Obesity.
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- It's Time to Put the Nap in Nutrition and Physical Activity Self-Assessment for Child Care (NAPSACC): A Systematic Review Demonstrating the Impact of Child Care on Sleep Outcomes in Early Childhood.Childhood obesity (Print) · 2025Pooled it
- Creating healthy habits for Maryland preschoolers (CHAMP): a cluster-randomized controlled trial among childcare centers.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2025Trial
- A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Loss versus Gain Incentives to Improve Adherence to an Obesity Treatment Intervention in Adolescents.Nutrients · 2024Trial
- The Role of Parenting in Mitigating Epigenetic Cardiometabolic Risk in a Sample of Predominantly Latino Preschoolers.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Household Food Insecurity Risk and Weight Status Outcomes in Early Childhood: A Public Health Perspective.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Management of Childhood Obesity.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Physical activity and competitive sport safety for children affected by inherited cardiac conditions and selected acquired cardiomyopathies: emerging evidence and areas for further inquiry.European journal of pediatrics · 2026Review
- Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Motivational Interviewing-Based Wellness Coaching for Kids and Families (WC4K) Program in Pediatric Obesity Care: Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Pragmatic Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Household Poverty and Obesity in Children With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Report From COG-AALL03N1.Pediatric blood & cancer · 2026Article
- Circulating spexin and adiponectin as early biomarkers of insulin resistance in pediatric obesity.BMC endocrine disorders · 2026Article
- "What impact does having a diagnosis of an inherited cardiac condition have on children and young people's physical activity and quality of life?" A scoping review.European journal of pediatrics · 2026Article
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- The epidemic of childhood obesity and the COVID-19 pandemic: metabolic characteristics and effects of therapy.Pediatric endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism · 2026Article
- Obesity from Childhood to Mid-adulthood in the United States: A Synthetic Cohort Approach to Measuring Health Trajectories.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026Article
- mTOR blockade prevents progressive proteinuria but induces hyperglycaemia in obese Dahl salt-sensitive rats before puberty.Experimental physiology · 2025Article
- Parenting styles, parenting interventions, and childhood obesity.Current problems in pediatric and adolescent health care · 2025Article
- Real-World Use of Phentermine and Topiramate for Adolescent Obesity: Retrospective Effectiveness and Safety Analysis.Childhood obesity (Print) · 2025Article
- Contemporary Changes in Global Trends in Early-Onset Cancer: Incidence and Mortality (2000-2021).Cancers · 2025Article
- Universal free school meals and child body mass index: impact among children in community-based health care organizations.Health affairs scholar · 2025Article
- THRIVE 2.0: A randomized-controlled trial of an obesity prevention intervention designed for infants in pediatric primary care.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2025Article
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Abstract
objectivesExamine childhood obesity incidence across recent cohorts.
methodsWe examined obesity incidence and prevalence across 2 cohorts of children in the United States 12 years apart using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Studies, parallel data sets following the kindergarten cohorts of 1998 and 2010 with direct anthropometric measurements at multiple time points through fifth grade in 2004 and 2016, respectively. We investigated annualized incidence rate and cumulative incidence proportion of obesity (BMI z-score ≥95th percentile based on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention weight-for-age z-scores).
resultsAmong children who did not have obesity at kindergarten entry, there was a 4.5% relative increase in cumulative incidence of new obesity cases by end of fifth grade across cohorts (15.5% [14.1%-16.9%] vs 16.2% [15.0%-17.3%]), though annual incidence did not change substantially. The risk of incident obesity for children who had normal BMI at kindergarten entry stayed the same, but the risk of incident obesity among overweight kindergartners increased slightly. Social disparities in obesity incidence expanded: incidence of new cases during primary school among non-Hispanic Black children increased by 29% (95% confidence interval, 25%-34%), whereas risk for other race-ethnic groups plateaued or decreased. Children from the most socioeconomically disadvantaged households experienced 15% higher cumulative incidence across primary school in 2010 than 1998.
conclusionsIncidence of childhood obesity was higher, occurred at younger ages, and was more severe than 12 years previous; thus, more youths may now be at risk for health consequences associated with early onset of obesity.
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