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Research Evidence

UK & Ireland studies

• Public health policy, evidence, and causation: lessons from the studies on obesity. Russo F. Med Health Care Philos. 2011 Jun 8
• Body mass, frequency of eating and breakfast consumption in 9-13-year-olds. Coppinger T, Jeanes YM, Hardwick J, Reeves S. J Hum Nutr Diet. 2011 Jun 8. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-277X.2011.01184.x
• [Weight Watchers on prescription: An observational study of weight change among adults referred to Weight Watchers by the NHS. Ahern AL, Olson AD, Aston LM, Jebb SA. BMC Public Health. 2011 Jun 6;11(1):434
• [Validity of a new abdominal bioelectrical impedance device to measure abdominal and visceral fat: comparison with MRI. Browning LM, Mugridge O, Chatfield MD, Dixon AK, Aitken SW, Joubert I, Prentice AM, Jebb SA. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2010 Dec;18(12):2385-91
• Cohort profile: the Gateshead Millennium Study. Parkinson KN, Pearce MS, Dale A, Reilly JJ, Drewett RF, Wright CM, Relton CL, McArdle P, Le Couteur AS, Adamson AJ. Int J Epidemiol. 2011 Apr;40(2):308-17

International studies

• Extreme Morbid Obesity and Labor Outcome in Nulliparous Women at Term. Garabedian MJ, Williams CM, Pearce CF, Lain KY, Hansen WF. Am J Perinatol. 2011 Jun 9
• Testing a brief self-directed behavioral weight control program. Linde JA, Jeffery RW. Behav Med. 2011 Apr;37(2):47-53
• Health Consequences of Childhood Obesity. Saha AK, Sarkar N, Chatterjee T. Indian J Pediatr. 2011 Jun 10
• Evolution of obesity in a low birth weight cohort. Casey PH, Bradley RH, Whiteside-Mansell L, Barrett K, Gossett JM, Simpson PM. J Perinatol. 2011 Jun 9. doi: 10.1038/jp.2011.75
• The Women's Health Initiative: The Food Environment, Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status, BMI, and Blood Pressure. Dubowitz T, Ghosh-Dastidar M, Eibner C, Slaughter ME, Fernandes M, Whitsel EA, Bird CE, Jewel, A, Margolis KL, Li W, Michael YL, Shih RA, Manson JE, Escarce JJ. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2011 Jun 9. doi: 10.1038/oby.2011.141
• Interventions addressing general parenting to prevent or treat childhood obesity. Gerards SM, Sleddens EF, Dagnelie PC, de Vries NK, Kremers SP. Int J Pediatr Obes. 2011 Jun 10
• General parenting, childhood overweight and obesity-inducing behaviors: a review. Sleddens EF, Gerards SM, Thijs C, de Vries NK, Kremers SP. Int J Pediatr Obes. 2011 Jun 9
• Dementia: Overweight or obesity during midlife is associated with late-life dementia. Kingwell K. Nat Rev Neurol. 2011 Jun 8;7(6):299. doi: 10.1038/nrneurol.2011.74
• Bidirectional association between depression and obesity in middle-aged and older women. Pan A, Sun Q, Czernichow S, Kivimaki M, Okereke OI, Lucas M, Manson JE, Ascherio A, Hu FB. Int J Obes (Lond). 2011 Jun 7. doi: 10.1038/ijo.2011.111
• Ergo-anthropometrics: joining fit to fat to predict cardiovascular risk. Morales A. MEDICC Rev. 2011 Apr;13(2):52
• Unhealthy weight control behaviors among adolescents. Vander Wal JS. J Health Psychol. 2011 Jun 7
• The Fetal Origins of Obesity: Early Origins of Altered Food Intake. Muhlhausler BS, Ong ZY. Endocr Metab Immune Disord Drug Targets. 2011 Jun 8
• Socio-demographic and lifestyle factors associated with overweight in a representative sample of 11-15 year olds in France: Results from the WHO-Collaborative Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) cross-sectional study. Dupuy M, Godeau E, Vignes C, Ahluwalia N. BMC Public Health. 2011 Jun 7;11(1):442
• How can primary care providers manage pediatric obesity in the real world? Hopkins KF, Decristofaro C, Elliott L. J Am Acad Nurse Pract. 2011 Jun;23(6):278-88. doi: 10.1111/j.1745-7599.2011.00614.x
• Body Composition Measured by Dual-Energy X-ray Absorptiometry Half-body Scans in Obese Children. Breithaupt P, Colley RC, Adamo KB. Acta Paediatr. 2011 Jun 7. doi: 10.1111/j.1651-2227.2011.02378.x
• Waist circumference predicts increased cardiometabolic risk in normal weight adolescent males. Taylor SA, Hergenroeder AC. Int J Pediatr Obes. 2011 Jun 7
• Obesity in children and adolescents: relationship to growth, pubarche, menarche, and voice break. Kleber M, Schwarz A, Reinehr T. J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab. 2011;24(3-4):125-30
• Trends over 5 Decades in U.S. Occupation-Related Physical Activity and Their Associations with Obesity. Church TS, Thomas DM, Tudor-Locke C, Katzmarzyk PT, Earnest CP, Rodarte RQ, Martin CK, Blair SN, Bouchard C. PLoS One. 2011;6(5):e19657
• Social inequalities in obesity and overweight in 11 OECD countries. Devaux M, Sassi F. Eur J Public Health. 2011 Jun 6
• Treating Childhood Obesity in Primary Care. Wald ER, Moyer SC, Eickhoff J, Ewing LJ. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2011 Jun 6
• Barriers to recruitment of professionals into a general practice childhood obesity program. Jones KM, Dixon ME, Falkingham L, Piteman L, Dixon JB. Aust J Prim Health. 2011;17(2):156-61
• View the label before you view the movie: A field experiment into the impact of Portion size and Guideline Daily Amounts labelling on soft drinks in cinemas. Vermeer WM, Steenhuis IH, Leeuwis FH, Bos AE, de Boer MR, Seidell JC. BMC Public Health. 2011 Jun 6;11(1):438
• Intra-familial and ethnic effects on attitudinal and perceptual body image: a cohort of South African mother-daughter dyads. McHiza ZJ, Goedecke JH, Lambert EV. BMC Public Health. 2011 Jun 6;11(1):433
• Identification of Overweight in Children in the United States: A Simplified Approach. Nainar SM. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2011 Jun 9. doi: 10.1038/oby.2011.159
• Longitudinal associations between cycling to school and weight status. Bere E, Oenema A, Prins RG, Seiler S, Brug J. Int J Pediatr Obes. 2011 Jun 7
• Exploring Mediators of Food Insecurity and Obesity: A Review of Recent Literature. Franklin B, Jones A, Love D, Puckett S, Macklin J, White-Means S. J Community Health. 2011 Jun 5
• Obesity reduction black intervention trial (ORBIT): 18-month results. Fitzgibbon ML, Stolley MR, Schiffer L, Sharp LK, Singh V, Dyer A. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2010 Dec;18(12):2317-25
• Ethnicity, obesity and the metabolic syndrome: implications on assessing risk and targeting intervention. Deboer MD. Expert Rev Endocrinol Metab. 2011 Mar;6(2):279-289
• Wellness in community living adults: The Weigh to Life Program. Harrison RL, Mattson LK, Durbin DM, Fish AF, Bachman JA. Patient Educ Couns. 2011 Jun 2
• Integrating a family-focused approach into child obesity prevention: Rationale and design for the My Parenting SOS study randomized control trial. Ward DS, Vaughn AE, Bangdiwala KI, Campbell M, Jones DJ, Panter AT, Stevens J. BMC Public Health. 2011 Jun 5;11(1):431
• Physical activity of Canadian adults: accelerometer results from the 2007 to 2009 Canadian Health Measures Survey. Colley RC, Garriguet D, Janssen I, Craig CL, Clarke J, Tremblay MS. Health Rep. 2011 Mar;22(1):7-14
• Clinical guidelines for weight management in New Zealand adults, children and young people. Jull A, Lawes CM, Eyles H, Maddison R, Gorton D, Arcus K, Chee N, Taylor B, Mann J. J Prim Health Care. 2011 Mar 1;3(1):66-71
• Childhood social circumstances and body mass index in adult life: the Metropolit 1953 Danish male birth cohort. Larsen AM, Lund R, Kriegbaum M, Avlund K, Osler M. Scand J Public Health. 2011 May;39(3):296-302
• Preliminary healthy eating outcomes of SNaX, a pilot community-based intervention for adolescents. Bogart LM, Elliott MN, Uyeda K, Hawes-Dawson J, Klein DJ, Schuster MA. J Adolesc Health. 2011 Feb;48(2):196-202
• Obese adolescents are less active than their normal-weight peers, but wherein lies the difference? Olds TS, Ferrar KE, Schranz NK, Maher CA. J Adolesc Health. 2011 Feb;48(2):189-95
• Predictors of increasing waist circumference in an Australian population. Walls HL, Magliano DJ, McNeil JJ, Stevenson C, Ademi Z, Shaw J, Peeters A. Public Health Nutr. 2011 May;14(5):870-81
• Obesity and low vision as a result of excessive Internet use and television viewing. Bener A, Al-Mahdi HS, Ali AI, Al-Nufal M, Vachhani PJ, Tewfik I. Int J Food Sci Nutr. 2011 Feb;62(1):60-2

Systematic Reviews

• Improvement of aerobic fitness in obese children: a meta-analysis. Saavedra JM, Escalante Y, Garcia-Hermoso A. Int J Pediatr Obes. 2011 Jun 8
• Patients'and professionals' experiences and perspectives of obesity in health-care settings: a synthesis of current research. Mold F, Forbes A. Health Expect. 2011 Jun 7. doi: 10.1111/j.1369-7625.2011.00699.x

In the News

BBC News:

• Fitness flip-flops: What's behind this sandal fad? (8/6/11)

NHS Choices: Behind the Headlines:

• 'No weight gain' from the pill (9/6/11)
• Nicotine 'obesity drug' needs more study (10/6/11)

Latest Reports

• New DH report: Changing Behaviour, Improving Outcomes: A new social marketing strategy for public health
• New NICE guidance: Preventing type 2 diabetes - population and community interventions
• CHIMAT obesity service snapshot report

Tools and Data Updates

• WHO database on nutrition, obesity and physical activity
• WHO/Europe Health Economic Assessment Tool (HEAT) for cycling and walking
• Scottish Government: obesity route map

NOO Announcements

• Knowledge and attitudes towards healthy eating and physical activity briefing paper
• Child obesity small area E-Atlas
• Brief interventions for weight management briefing paper

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