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Introduction: the use of body mass index to assess obesity in childrenW H Dietz
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 70:123S-5S. 1999....- Clinical practice. Overweight children and adolescentsWilliam H Dietz
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
N Engl J Med 352:2100-9. 2005 
Public health law and the prevention and control of obesityWilliam H Dietz
Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway NE, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
Milbank Q 87:215-27. 2009....- Canada on the Move: a novel effort to increase physical activity among CanadiansWilliam H Dietz
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30307, USA
Can J Public Health 97:S3-4. 2006 - Focus group data pertinent to the prevention of obesity in African AmericansW Dietz
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
Am J Med Sci 322:286-9. 2001..Such data are essential to understand the attitudinal changes necessary to prevent obesity in these vulnerable populations... - Preventing obesity in children and adolescentsW H Dietz
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Hwy NE, Mailstop K 24, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
Annu Rev Public Health 22:337-53. 2001..A similar process is used to emphasize the potential influence of school-based interventions directed at changes in food choices and sedentary behavior... - Focus group data pertinent to the prevention of obesity in African AmericansW Dietz
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
Am J Med Sci 322:275-8. 2001..Such data are essential to understand the attitudinal changes necessary to prevent obesity in these vulnerable populations... 
Racial/ethnic differences in body fatness among children and adolescentsDavid S Freedman
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 16:1105-11. 2008..Although the BMI is widely used as a measure of adiposity, it is a measure of excess weight, and its association with body fatness may differ across racial or ethnic groups...- The relation of BMI and skinfold thicknesses to risk factors among young and middle-aged adults: the Bogalusa Heart StudyDavid S Freedman
Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway, Atlanta GA 30341 3724, USA
Ann Hum Biol 37:726-37. 2010..We examine whether the triceps and subscapular skinfold thicknesses are more strongly related to adult levels of lipids, fasting insulin and blood pressure than BMI... - Racial and ethnic differences in secular trends for childhood BMI, weight, and heightDavid S Freedman
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 14:301-8. 2006..The prevalence of childhood overweight in the United States has markedly increased over the last 30 years. We examined differences in the secular trends for BMI, weight, and height among white, black, and Mexican-American children... - The identification of children with adverse risk factor levels by body mass index cutoffs from 2 classification systems: the Bogalusa Heart StudyDavid S Freedman
Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 92:1298-305. 2010..The cutoffs from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) growth charts and from the Cooper Institute (FitnessGram) are widely used to identify children who have a high body mass index (BMI)... 
The relation of menarcheal age to obesity in childhood and adulthood: the Bogalusa heart studyDavid S Freedman
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
BMC Pediatr 3:3. 2003....- The relation of childhood BMI to adult adiposity: the Bogalusa Heart StudyDavid S Freedman
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC Mailstop K 26, 4770 Buford Hwy, Atlanta, GA 30341 3717, USA
Pediatrics 115:22-7. 2005..We further examined these longitudinal associations... - Relation of age at menarche to race, time period, and anthropometric dimensions: the Bogalusa Heart StudyDavid S Freedman
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341 3717, USA
Pediatrics 110:e43. 2002..To assess secular trends in menarcheal age between 1973 and 1994 and to determine whether childhood levels of height, weight, and skinfold thicknesses can account for racial (white/black) differences in menarcheal age... - Relation of body mass index and skinfold thicknesses to cardiovascular disease risk factors in children: the Bogalusa Heart StudyDavid S Freedman
Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341 3724, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 90:210-6. 2009..Adverse levels of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors are related to skinfold thicknesses and body mass index (BMI) among children, but the relative strengths of these associations are unknown... - Classification of body fatness by body mass index-for-age categories among childrenDavid S Freedman
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway, Atlanta, GA 30341 3717, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 163:805-11. 2009..To examine the ability of various body mass index (BMI)-for-age categories, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 85th to 94th percentiles, to correctly classify the body fatness of children and adolescents... - Do skinfold measurements provide additional information to body mass index in the assessment of body fatness among children and adolescents?Zuguo Mei
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mailstop K 25, 4770 Buford Hwy, Atlanta, GA 30341 3724, USA
Pediatrics 119:e1306-13. 2007.... - Relation of body mass index and waist-to-height ratio to cardiovascular disease risk factors in children and adolescents: the Bogalusa Heart StudyDavid S Freedman
Divisions of Nutrition and Physical Activity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 86:33-40. 2007..Several investigators have concluded that the waist-to-height ratio is more strongly associated with cardiovascular disease risk factors than is the body mass index (BMI; in kg/m(2))... - Cardiovascular risk factors and excess adiposity among overweight children and adolescents: the Bogalusa Heart StudyDavid S Freedman
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
J Pediatr 150:12-17.e2. 2007.... - Risk factors and adult body mass index among overweight children: the Bogalusa Heart StudyDavid S Freedman
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, K 26, 4770 Buford Hwy, Atlanta, GA 30341 3724, USA
Pediatrics 123:750-7. 2009..We examined the ability of BMI for age, the skinfold sum (subscapular + triceps), and the waist/height ratio to identify which overweight children are at greatest risk... - The prediction of body fatness by BMI and skinfold thicknesses among children and adolescentsDavid S Freedman
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention K 26, Atlanta, Georgia
Ann Hum Biol 34:183-94. 2007..It has been suggested that skinfold thicknesses be measured among overweight children to confirm the presence of excess adiposity... - Possible lessons for physician counseling on obesity from the progress in smoking cessation in primary careLawrence W Green
Office of Extramural Prevention Research, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341-3724, USA
Forum Nutr 56:191-4. 2003 - Law as a tool for preventing chronic diseases: expanding the spectrum of effective public health strategiesGeorge A Mensah
Cardiovascular Health Branch, Division of Adult and Community Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341-3717, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 1:A11. 2004 - Height and adiposity among childrenDavid S Freedman
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mailstop K 26, 4770 Buford Highway, Atlanta, GA 30341 3717, USA
Obes Res 12:846-53. 2004..3) with height among children. We examined whether the resulting preferential classification of taller children as overweight, based on a BMI > or = 95th percentile, is appropriate... - Validity of body mass index compared with other body-composition screening indexes for the assessment of body fatness in children and adolescentsZuguo Mei
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341 3724, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 75:978-85. 2002..Validation studies of height- and weight-based indexes of body fatness in children and adolescents have examined only small samples of school-age children... - Shifts in percentiles of growth during early childhood: analysis of longitudinal data from the California Child Health and Development StudyZuguo Mei
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Pediatrics 113:e617-27. 2004..Pediatricians must consider the prevalence of growth rate shifts during infancy and early childhood before they counsel parents regarding growth or refer children for additional evaluations of growth... - Physical activity and body mass index among US adolescents: youth risk behavior survey, 1999Sarah Levin
Divisions of Nutrition and Physical Activity, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 157:816-20. 2003..Interventions to increase physical activity for high school students should target adolescents of all shapes and sizes, and may best be achieved by school policies requiring physical education or after-school sports... - Childhood overweight and family incomeDavid S Freedman
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
MedGenMed 9:26. 2007..To examine the relation of family income, expressed relative to the poverty threshold, to the prevalence of childhood overweight, and to determine whether the association differs by race/ethnicity and time period... - Trends and correlates of class 3 obesity in the United States from 1990 through 2000David S Freedman
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mailstop K 26, 4770 Buford Hwy, Atlanta, GA 30341 3717, USA
JAMA 288:1758-61. 2002..Persons with class 3 obesity (body mass index [BMI] > or = 40) are at greatest risk, but there is little information about this subgroup... - Overweight in childhood and adolescenceWilliam H Dietz
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA
N Engl J Med 350:855-7. 2004 - Evaluation of and recommendations for growth references for very low birth weight (< or =1500 grams) infants in the United StatesBettylou Sherry
Maternal and Child Nutrition Branch, Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341 3717, USA
Pediatrics 111:750-8. 2003..To determine the best available growth reference for evaluating the growth status of very low birth weight (VLBW; < or =1500 g) infants in the United States... - Physical education and academic achievement in elementary school: data from the early childhood longitudinal studySusan A Carlson
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, 4770 Buford Highway, NE, Mailstop K 46, Atlanta, GA 30345, USA
Am J Public Health 98:721-7. 2008..We examined the association between time spent in physical education and academic achievement in a longitudinal study of students in kindergarten through fifth grade... - Changes and variability in high levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol among childrenDavid S Freedman
Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, Centers forDisease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Pediatrics 126:266-73. 2010..However, the tracking and variability of these very high levels have not been investigated... - Prevalence of obesity, diabetes, and obesity-related health risk factors, 2001Ali H Mokdad
Division of Adult and Community Health, 4770 National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341 3717, USA
JAMA 289:76-9. 2003..Obesity and diabetes are increasing in the United States... - Law as a tool for preventing chronic diseases: expanding the range of effective public health strategiesGeorge A Mensah
Cardiovascular Health Branch, Division of Adult and Community Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341 3717, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 1:A13. 2004.... - Possible lessons from the tobacco experience for obesity controlShawna L Mercer
Office of Extramural Prevention Research, Public Health Practice Program Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341 3724, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 77:1073S-1082S. 2003.... - Increasing stair use in a worksite through environmental changesNicole Angelique Kerr
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
Am J Health Promot 18:312-5. 2004..DISCUSSION: These data suggest that physical improvements to a stairwell, signage that encourages stair use, and music may increase physical activity among building occupants... - Policy tools for the childhood obesity epidemicWilliam H Dietz
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
J Law Med Ethics 30:83-7. 2002..Although the childhood obesity epidemic is still evolving, this article provides several examples of potentially effective strategic approaches to address it... - Weight loss counseling revisitedMary K Serdula
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, Chronic Disease Nutrition Branch, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga 30341-37117, USA
JAMA 289:1747-50. 2003 - Racial differences in the tracking of childhood BMI to adulthoodDavid S Freedman
CDC Mailstop K 26, 4770 Buford Highway, Atlanta GA 30341 3717, USA
Obes Res 13:928-35. 2005..Therefore, we examined the tracking of childhood BMI into adulthood in a biracial (36% black) sample... - Prevalence of the metabolic syndrome among US adults: findings from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination SurveyEarl S Ford
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd NE, Mailstop E 17, Atlanta, GA 30333
JAMA 287:356-9. 2002..Limited information is available about the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in the United States, however... - Is the body adiposity index (hip circumference/height1ยท5) more strongly related to skinfold thicknesses and risk factor levels than is BMI? The Bogalusa Heart StudyDavid S Freedman
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity and Obesity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC K 26, 4770 Buford Highway, Atlanta, GA 30341 3724, USA
Br J Nutr 109:338-45. 2013..These findings indicate that the body adiposity index is likely to be an inferior index of adiposity than is either BMI or waist circumference... - Putting physical activity into public health: a historical perspective from the CDCMichael Pratt
Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway NE, K 46 Atlanta, GA 30341 3717, USA
Prev Med 49:301-2. 2009..This commentary reviews the role that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has played since 1964 in moving science, policy, and practice from exercise and fitness to physical activity and health... - Prevention and control of coronary heart disease and stroke--nomenclature for prevention approaches in public health: a statement for public health practice from the Centers for Disease Control and PreventionGeorge A Mensah
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341 3717, USA
Am J Prev Med 29:152-7. 2005.... - Relation of childhood height to obesity among adults: the Bogalusa Heart Study David S Freedman
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Pediatrics 109:E23. 2002..In this study, the objective was to determine whether childhood height is related to adult adiposity and whether the association is independent of childhood levels of BMI and triceps skinfold thickness... - Economic burden of obesity in youths aged 6 to 17 years: 1979-1999Guijing Wang
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Pediatrics 109:E81-1. 2002..To examine the trend of obesity-associated diseases in youths and related economic costs... - Activity, inactivity, and screen time in relation to weight and fatness over adolescence in girlsAviva Must
Department of Public Health and Family Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, 136 Harrison Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 15:1774-81. 2007..We examined the longitudinal relationship of physical activity, inactivity, and screen time with relative weight status and percentage body fat (%BF) and explored how it differed by parental overweight status... - Is failure to thrive a greater concern than obesity?William H Dietz
J Pediatr 141:6-7. 2002 - Behavioral risk factors in relation to visceral adipose tissue deposition in adolescent femalesAviva Must
Department of Public Health and Family Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
Int J Pediatr Obes 3:28-36. 2008..To characterize visceral adipose tissue (VAT) and subcutaneous abdominal adipose tissue (SAAT) deposition in girls over the pubertal period and to assess the influence of behavioral risk factors on their deposition... - Office-based motivational interviewing to prevent childhood obesity: a feasibility studyRobert P Schwartz
Department of Pediatrics, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC 27157, and Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 161:495-501. 2007..To determine whether pediatricians and dietitians can implement an office-based obesity prevention program using motivational interviewing as the primary intervention... - Treatment of child and adolescent obesity: reports from pediatricians, pediatric nurse practitioners, and registered dietitiansSarah E Barlow
St Louis University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63104, USA
Pediatrics 110:229-35. 2002..A secondary aim was to examine the association of certain provider characteristics with recommended evaluation practices... - Relation of body composition, parental overweight, pubertal stage, and race-ethnicity to energy expenditure among premenarcheal girlsLinda G Bandini
Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, New England Medical Center, Boston, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 76:1040-7. 2002..Previous studies assessed the influence of parental weight status, sexual maturation, race-ethnicity, and energy expenditure among children, but few examined these issues comprehensively... - Percentage of body fat and body mass index are associated with mobility limitations in people aged 70 and older from NHANES IIIKirsten Krahnstoever Davison
Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16801, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 50:1802-9. 2002..To assess the association between functional limitations and body composition indices, including percentage of body fat, muscle mass, and body mass index (BMI)... - Summary of the 2000 Surgeon General's listening session: toward a national action plan on overweight and obesityYvonne Jackson
Administration on Aging, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS, Washington, DC, USA
Obes Res 10:1299-305. 2002..The combination of approaches from these perspectives offers a rich resource of opportunity to combat the public health epidemic of overweight and obesity... - Prevalence of a metabolic syndrome phenotype in adolescents: findings from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-1994Stephen Cook
Strong Children s Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, NY 14642, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 157:821-7. 2003..In adults the metabolic syndrome imposes a substantial risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus and premature coronary heart disease. Even so, no national estimate is currently available of the prevalence of this syndrome in adolescents... - Does menarche mark a period of elevated resting metabolic rate?Jennifer L Spadano
General Clinical Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139, USA
Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 286:E456-62. 2004..Thus parental overweight may influence changes that occur in RMR during adolescence in girls... - Energy-dense snack food intake in adolescence: longitudinal relationship to weight and fatnessSarah M Phillips
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA
Obes Res 12:461-72. 2004..DISCUSSION: In this cohort of initially nonobese girls, overall EDS food consumption does not seem to influence weight status or fatness change over the adolescent period... - Relation of body mass index and body fatness to energy expenditure: longitudinal changes from preadolescence through adolescenceLinda G Bandini
Department of Health Sciences, Boston University, Boston, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 80:1262-9. 2004..Although it is widely accepted that weight gain results when energy intake exceeds energy expenditure (EE), how reduced EE contributes to the development of obesity remains unclear... - Longitudinal changes in the accuracy of reported energy intake in girls 10-15 y of ageLinda G Bandini
General Clinical Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 78:480-4. 2003..However, significant underreporting of total energy intake (EI) has been found when EI is compared with total energy expenditure (EE) measured by doubly labeled water... - Longitudinal changes in energy expenditure in girls from late childhood through midadolescenceJennifer L Spadano
General Clinical Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 81:1102-9. 2005..Longitudinal data on energy expenditure in children and adolescents are scarce... - What constitutes successful weight management in adolescents?William H Dietz
Ann Intern Med 145:145-6. 2006 - Medical evaluation of overweight children and adolescents: reports from pediatricians, pediatric nurse practitioners, and registered dietitiansSarah E Barlow
St Louis University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63104, USA
Pediatrics 110:222-8. 2002..This information can guide development of programs to help providers improve their evaluation practices. A secondary objective was to examine the association of certain provider characteristics with recommended evaluation practices... - Detecting obesity based on skinfold thicknessesTim J Cole
Am J Clin Nutr 81:196; author reply 196-7. 2005 - Physical activity recommendations: where do we go from here?William H Dietz
J Pediatr 146:719-20. 2005 - Sugar-sweetened beverages, milk intake, and obesity in children and adolescentsWilliam H Dietz
J Pediatr 148:152-4. 2006 - Management of child and adolescent obesity: summary and recommendations based on reports from pediatricians, pediatric nurse practitioners, and registered dietitiansSarah E Barlow
St Louis University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, USA
Pediatrics 110:236-8. 2002