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ArticleChildhood obesity (Print)2025

High BMI z-Scores from Different Growth References Are Not Comparable: An Example from a Weight Management Trial with an Anti-Obesity Medication in Pubertal Adolescents with Obesity.

Craig M Hales, Cynthia L Ogden, David S Freedman, Kushal Sahu, Paula M Hale, Rashmi K Mamadi, Aaron S Kelly

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Article in Childhood obesity (Print), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Discrepancies Between Recommendations in Evidence-Based Guidelines for the Management of Obesity in Adolescents and Adults: An Evidence Map.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Craig M HalesCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, MD, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2355-1177
Cynthia L OgdenCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, MD, USA.
David S FreedmanCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8014-0289
Kushal SahuNovo Nordisk Global Business Services, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Paula M HaleNovo Nordisk Inc., Plainsboro, NJ, USA.
Rashmi K MamadiNovo Nordisk Global Business Services, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Aaron S KellyDepartment of Pediatrics and Center for Pediatric Obesity Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

Funding

Intramural CDC HHS CC999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Body Mass IndexGlucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor AgonistsGrowth ChartsLiraglutideOutcome Assessment, Health CarePediatric ObesityAdolescentClinical Trials, Phase III as TopicFemaleHumansMaleMulticenter Studies as TopicRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicReference StandardsReference ValuesReproducibility of ResultsGlucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor AgonistsLiraglutideBMIchildhood obesityclinical endpointsclinical trialsgrowth chartgrowth reference

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PMID38995874
PMCPMC12422332

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