Abstract Background The 2008 Great Recession significantly impacted economies and
individuals globally, with potential impacts on food systems and dietary intake. We …

Genetic influences on body mass index (BMI) appear to markedly differ across life, yet
existing research is equivocal and limited by a paucity of life course data. We thus used a …

Objective Researchers have linked geographic disparities in obesity to community‐level
characteristics, yet many prior observational studies have ignored temporality and potential …

We use longitudinal data across a key developmental period, spanning much of childhood
and adolescence (age 5 to 17, years 2006–2018) from the UK Millennium Cohort Study, a …

Background Brazil currently holds the second place in the worldwide ranking of the largest
number of bariatric surgical procedures performed. The offer of bariatric surgery in the public …

Childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the United States and continues to
increase in prevalence in almost all countries in which it has been studied, including …

Objectives The burden of childhood obesity is clustered among children in low-
socioeconomic groups. Social spending on children—public welfare expenditure on families …

The incidence of adiposity in the early years of life has outgrown the prevalence in older
children and adolescents globally; however, the factors influencing weight gain are …

To examine to what extent spatial inequalities in childhood obesity are attributable to spatial
inequalities in socioeconomic characteristics across a country, we aimed to investigate the …

Background: In high-income countries, socioeconomically disadvantaged adolescents
experience a higher risk of obesity, which may have been further exacerbated during the …