The prevalence of child and adolescent obesity has plateaued at high levels in most high-
income countries and is increasing in many low-income and middle-income countries …

Background Obesity is a global health problem mainly attributed to lifestyle changes such as
diet, low physical activity or socioeconomics factors. However, several evidences …

Background Comparable global data on health and nutrition of school-aged children and
adolescents are scarce. We aimed to estimate age trajectories and time trends in mean …

Background Maternal obesity and excessive gestational weight gain may have persistent
effects on offspring fat development. However, it remains unclear whether these effects differ …

Obesity is in theory defined on the basis of the excess health risk caused by adiposity
exceeding the size normally found in the population, but for practical reasons, the World …

Maternal lifestyle during pregnancy, as well as early nutrition and the environment infants
are raised in, are considered relevant factors for the prevention of childhood obesity. Several …

This systematic review and meta‐analysis aimed to quantify associations between Child
Eating Behavior Questionnaire (CEBQ) and Baby Eating Behavior Questionnaire (BEBQ) …

Importance Body mass index (BMI) of the 95th or greater percentile for age and sex is
common among young people, and its prevalence has increased in recent decades …

We propose a model for obesity development that traces a considerable part of its origins to
the social domain (mainly different forms of prolonged social adversity), both within and …

The genetic background of childhood body mass index (BMI), and the extent to which the
well-known associations of childhood BMI with adult diseases are explained by shared …