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| Susan YanovskiSummaryAffiliation: National Institutes of Health Country: USA Publications
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ObesitySusan Z Yanovski
Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-5450, USA
N Engl J Med 346:591-602. 2002- Pharmacotherapy for obesity--promise and uncertaintySusan Z Yanovski
N Engl J Med 353:2187-9. 2005 - Binge eating disorder and obesity in 2003: could treating an eating disorder have a positive effect on the obesity epidemic?Susan Z Yanovski
Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 5450, USA
Int J Eat Disord 34:S117-20. 2003..The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between binge eating disorder (BED) and obesity... - Sugar and fat: cravings and aversionsSusan Yanovski
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Nutr 133:835S-837S. 2003..An understanding of food cravings and aversions may lead to improved methods for the prevention and treatment of obesity and eating disorders... - A low-fat intake and greater activity level are associated with lower weight regain 3 years after completing a very-low-calorie dietMaureen S Leser
NIH Clinical Center Nutrition Department, National Institutes of Health, Building 19, B1S234, 10 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-1078, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 102:1252-6. 2002..To promote better weight loss outcomes, registered dietitians should help clients who have lost weight limit their fat intake to less than 30% of energy and encourage high activity levels... 
Puberty and observed energy intake: boy, can they eat!Lauren B Shomaker
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 92:123-9. 2010..Anecdotal reports suggest that adolescent males consume large quantities of food to meet the growth demands of pubertal development. However, limited experimental data exist to support this impression...- Loss of control over eating, adiposity, and psychopathology in overweight childrenChristina M Morgan
Unit on Growth and Obesity, Developmental Endocrinology Branch, NICHD, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-1862, USA
Int J Eat Disord 31:430-41. 2002..It remains unknown whether children who endorse loss of control over eating before adolescence will be those who develop the greatest difficulties with binge eating or obesity in adulthood... - Eating in the absence of hunger in adolescents: intake after a large-array meal compared with that after a standardized mealLauren B Shomaker
Unit on Growth and Obesity, Program in Developmental Endocrinology and Genetics, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 92:697-703. 2010..Because energy intake required to reach satiety varies among individuals, a standard meal may not ensure the absence of hunger among participants of all weight strata... - The perceived onset of dieting and loss of control eating behaviors in overweight childrenMarian Tanofsky-Kraff
Unit on Growth and Obesity, Developmental Endocrinology Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 1103, USA
Int J Eat Disord 38:112-22. 2005..The current study investigated the self-reported temporal relationships of dieting, binge eating, and overweight in childhood... - Comparison of child interview and parent reports of children's eating disordered behaviorsMarian Tanofsky-Kraff
Unit on Growth and Obesity, Developmental Endocrinology Branch, NICHD, NIH, 10 Center Drive, Building 10, Room 10N262 MSC 1862, Bethesda, MD 20892 1862, USA
Eat Behav 6:95-9. 2005..While parent report of child eating behaviors may provide some general information regarding eating psychopathology in young nontreatment-seeking children, they do not accurately reflect the results of a structured interview... - Eating disorder or disordered eating? Non-normative eating patterns in obese individualsMarian Tanofsky-Kraff
Unit on Growth and Obesity, Developmental Endocrinology Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, 10 Center Drive, Building 10, Room 10N262 MSC 1862, Bethesda, MD 20892 1862
Obes Res 12:1361-6. 2004..Ultimately, better understanding of the many pathways to increased energy intake may lead to targeted strategies for prevention of overweight and obesity in at-risk individuals and populations... - Comparison of the child and parent forms of the Questionnaire on Eating and Weight Patterns in the assessment of children's eating-disordered behaviorsEmily Steinberg
Unit on Growth and Obesity, Developmental Endocrinology Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1862, USA
Int J Eat Disord 36:183-94. 2004..Further investigation of the utility of these questionnaires is needed before either can serve as a surrogate for a clinical interview... - Comparison of assessments of children's eating-disordered behaviors by interview and questionnaireMarian Tanofsky-Kraff
Unit on Growth and Obesity, Developmental Endocrinology Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1862, USA
Int J Eat Disord 33:213-24. 2003.... - Laboratory assessment of the food intake of children and adolescents with loss of control eatingMarian Tanofsky-Kraff
Unit on Growth and Obesity, Program in Developmental Endocrinology and Genetics, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 89:738-45. 2009..Loss of control (LOC) eating in youth predicts excessive weight gain. However, few studies have measured the actual energy intake of children reporting LOC eating... - Psychometric properties of a new questionnaire to assess eating in the absence of hunger in children and adolescentsMarian Tanofsky-Kraff
Program on Developmental Endocrinology and Genetics, NICHD, National Institutes of Health, DHHS, Hatfield Clinical Research Center, Room 1 3330, Bethesda, MD 20892 1862, USA
Appetite 51:148-55. 2008..However, no easily administered questionnaire exists to assess for EAH in children... - Children's descriptions of the foods consumed during loss of control eating episodesKelly R Theim
Unit on Growth and Obesity, Developmental Endocrinology Branch, NICHD, National Institutes of Health, DHHS, Hatfield CRC, 10 Center Dr, Rm 1 3330 MSC 1103, Bethesda, MD 20892 1103, USA
Eat Behav 8:258-65. 2007..2+/-2.7 v. 7.4+/-1.2%, p<.05) and desserts (18.1+/-3.1 v. 12.8+/-1.5%, p<.05). The quality of LOC episodes may help explain why LOC eating promotes excessive weight gain among children who report such episodes... - Differences between the perceived and actual age of overweight onset in children and adolescentsMarian Tanofsky-Kraff
Unit on Growth and Obesity, Developmental Endocrinology Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
MedGenMed 8:18. 2006..Greater efforts should be made to help parents and children understand and track growth patterns with the aim of preventing excessive weight gain... - Influence of serum leptin on weight and body fat growth in children at high risk for adult obesityAbby F Fleisch
Unit on Growth and Obesity, Developmental Endocrinology Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Hatfield CRC, Room 1E 3330, 10 Center Drive, MSC 1103, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 1103, USA
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 92:948-54. 2007.... - Effects of binge eating on satiation, satiety, and energy intake of overweight childrenMargaret C Mirch
Growth and Obesity, Developmental Endocrinology Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD 20892-1103, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 84:732-8. 2006..004). CONCLUSION: The ability to consume large quantities of palatable foods, coupled with decreased subsequent satiety, may play a role in the greater weight gain found in binge-eating children... - Eating-disordered behaviors, body fat, and psychopathology in overweight and normal-weight childrenMarian Tanofsky-Kraff
Unit on Growth and Obesity, Developmental Endocrinology Branch, National Institite of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 72:53-61. 2004..05 to <.01) and had higher body fat (p <.05) than OOs or NEs. OOs are common in childhood, but S/OBEs are more prevalent in OW children and associated with increased adiposity and eating-disordered cognitions... - A prospective study of loss of control eating for body weight gain in children at high risk for adult obesityMarian Tanofsky-Kraff
Unit on Growth and Obesity, Program in Developmental Endocrinology and Genetics, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, DHHS, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Int J Eat Disord 42:26-30. 2009..We investigated the relationship between baseline responses to the Eating Disorder Examination adapted for Children (ChEDE) and change in BMI (kg/m(2)) in children at high risk for adult obesity... - Structure analysis of the Children's Eating Attitudes Test in overweight and at-risk for overweight children and adolescentsLisa M Ranzenhofer
Unit on Growth and Obesity, Developmental Endocrinology Branch, NICHD, National Institutes of Health, DHHS, Bethesda, MD 20892 1103, USA
Eat Behav 9:218-27. 2008..In school-based samples of children, the Children's Eating Attitudes Test (ChEAT) has a four-factor structure; however, previous studies have not examined its factor structure in samples restricted to overweight youth... - A prospective study of psychological predictors of body fat gain among children at high risk for adult obesityMarian Tanofsky-Kraff
Unit on Growth and Obesity, Developmental Endocrinology Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD 20892-1103, USA
Pediatrics 117:1203-9. 2006..Interventions targeting disordered eating behaviors may be useful in preventing excessive fat gain in this high-risk group... - The FTO gene rs9939609 obesity-risk allele and loss of control over eatingMarian Tanofsky-Kraff
Unit on Growth and Obesity, Program on Developmental Endocrinology and Genetics, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD
Am J Clin Nutr 90:1483-8. 2009..Children with rs9939609 FTO variant alleles (homozygous = AA and heterozygous = AT) are predisposed to greater adiposity than are those with 2 wild-type alleles (TT)... - Binge eating in overweight treatment-seeking adolescentsDeborah R Glasofer
Unit on Growth and Obesity, DEB, NICHD, NIH, 10 Center Drive, CRC, Room 1 3330 MSC 1103, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 1103, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 32:95-105. 2007..To examine the frequency and recency of binge eating in relation to psychopathology in overweight, treatment-seeking adolescents... - The stability of metabolic syndrome in children and adolescentsJennifer K Gustafson
Unit on Growth and Obesity, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Hatfield Clinical Research Center, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 1103, USA
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 94:4828-34. 2009..Some studies suggest the presence of metabolic syndrome before adulthood may identify those at high risk for later cardiovascular morbidity, but there are few data examining the reliability of pediatric metabolic syndrome... - Preventing excessive weight gain in adolescents: interpersonal psychotherapy for binge eatingMarian Tanofsky-Kraff
Unit on Growth and Obesity, Developmental Endocrinology Branch, NICHD, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 15:1345-55. 2007..A rationale is provided for interpersonal psychotherapy as an intervention to slow the trajectory of weight gain in at-risk youth, with the aim of preventing or ameliorating obesity in adulthood... - Disordered-eating attitudes in relation to bone mineral density and markers of bone turnover in overweight adolescentsNatasha A Schvey
Unit on Growth and Obesity, Program in Developmental Endocrinology and Genetics, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, DHHS, Rockville, Maryland, USA
J Adolesc Health 45:33-9. 2009..To examine the relationships between cognitive eating restraint and both bone mineral density (BMD) and markers of bone turnover in overweight adolescents... - Psychological symptoms and insulin sensitivity in adolescentsLauren B Shomaker
Unit on Growth and Obesity, Program in Developmental Endocrinology and Genetics, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Service, 10 Center Drive, Hatfield Clinical Research Center, Room 1E 3330, MSC 1103, Bethesda, MD 20892 1103, USA
Pediatr Diabetes 11:417-23. 2010..We therefore examined symptoms of depression and anxiety in relation to insulin sensitivity in adolescents... - Psychological status and weight-related distress in overweight or at-risk-for-overweight childrenDeborah Young-Hyman
Unit on Growth and Obesity, National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 14:2249-58. 2006..To associate psychological status, weight-related distress, and weight status during childhood in overweight or at-risk-for-overweight children... - Loss of control eating disorder in children age 12 years and younger: proposed research criteriaMarian Tanofsky-Kraff
Unit on Growth and Obesity, Program in Developmental Endocrinology and Genetics, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, DHHS, Bethesda, MD 20892 1103, USA
Eat Behav 9:360-5. 2008..A rationale for the new criteria set is provided, and future research directions are proposed... - Treatment of pediatric and adolescent obesityJack A Yanovski
JAMA 289:1851-3. 2003 - Relationship of body mass index with demographic and clinical characteristics in the Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery (LABS)Steven H Belle
Surg Obes Relat Dis 4:474-80. 2008..Outcomes analyses should consider the potential for the confounding of BMI with demographic and clinical characteristics... - Look AHEAD (Action for Health in Diabetes): design and methods for a clinical trial of weight loss for the prevention of cardiovascular disease in type 2 diabetesDonna H Ryan
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Control Clin Trials 24:610-28. 2003..Other outcomes include components of CVD risk, cost and cost-effectiveness, diabetes control and complications, hospitalizations, intervention processes, and quality of life... 
Suboptimal control of glycemia, blood pressure, and LDL cholesterol in overweight adults with diabetes: the Look AHEAD StudyAlain G Bertoni
Division of Public Health Sciences, Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston Salem, NC 27157, USA
J Diabetes Complications 22:1-9. 2008..The characteristics associated with meeting goals for glycemia, blood pressure (BP), and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol for participants with diabetes were examined...- The epidemiology of obesityCynthia L Ogden
National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782, USA
Gastroenterology 132:2087-102. 2007..Many studies of dietary and behavioral treatments, however, have shown that maintenance of weight loss is difficult. The social and economic costs of obesity and of attempts to prevent or to treat obesity are high... - Safety and efficacy of bariatric surgery: Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric SurgerySteven H Belle
Data Coordinating Center, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Surg Obes Relat Dis 3:116-26. 2007..To facilitate research in this field, the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases responded to this knowledge gap by establishing the Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery (LABS) consortium... - Reduction in weight and cardiovascular disease risk factors in individuals with type 2 diabetes: one-year results of the look AHEAD trialXavier Pi-Sunyer
St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital Center, USA
Diabetes Care 30:1374-83. 2007..This report describes 1-year changes in CVD risk factors in a trial designed to examine the long-term effects of an intensive lifestyle intervention on the incidence of major CVD events... - Report of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute Obesity Task ForceLee M Kaplan
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Gastroenterology 132:2272-5. 2007