Trends of obesity and underweight in older children and adolescents in the United States, Brazil, China, and RussiaYoufa Wang
Carolina Population Center, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27516-3997, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 75:971-7. 2002
..The variations across countries may relate to changes and differences in key environmental factors...
Will all Americans become overweight or obese? estimating the progression and cost of the US obesity epidemicYoufa Wang
Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 16:2323-30. 2008
..Timely, dramatic, and effective development and implementation of corrective programs/policies are needed to avoid the otherwise inevitable health and societal consequences implied by our projections ...
Resemblance in dietary intakes between urban low-income African-American adolescents and their mothers: the healthy eating and active lifestyles from school to home for kids studyYoufa Wang
Center for Human Nutrition, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 109:52-63. 2009
..To examine the association and predictors of dietary intake resemblance between urban low-income African-American adolescents and their mothers...
- Dietary intake patterns of low-income urban african-american adolescents
Youfa Wang
Center for Human Nutrition, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 110:1340-5. 2010
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- Food prices are associated with dietary quality, fast food consumption, and body mass index among U.S. children and adolescents
May A Beydoun
Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Nutr 141:304-11. 2011
..S. children aged 2-9 y, higher FF-PI is associated with better dietary quality, whereas higher FV-PI is linked to higher BMI and lower fiber intake. Associations varied by family income in children for many dietary intake variables...
- Receiver-operating characteristics of adiposity for metabolic syndrome: the Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity across the Life Span (HANDLS) study
May A Beydoun
National Institute on Aging, NIA NIH IRP, NIH Biomedical Research Center, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
Public Health Nutr 14:77-92. 2011
..To assess the predictive values of various adiposity indices for metabolic syndrome (MetS) among adults using baseline data from the Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity across the Life Span (HANDLS) cohort...
- Between-group differences in nutrition- and health-related psychosocial factors among US adults and their associations with diet, exercise, and weight status
Youfa Wang
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of International Health, 615 N Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Acad Nutr Diet 112:486-498.e3. 2012
..Large disparities exist across ethnic and socioeconomic status groups regarding obesity and other chronic diseases. Eliminating health disparities is a national priority in the United States...
- Reduced away-from-home food expenditure and better nutrition knowledge and belief can improve quality of dietary intake among US adults
May A Beydoun
Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe Street E2546, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Public Health Nutr 12:369-81. 2009
..To test whether reduced away-from-home food expenditure (AFHFE) and better nutrition knowledge and beliefs (NKB) are associated with dietary quality among US adults...
- Serum antioxidant status is associated with metabolic syndrome among U.S. adults in recent national surveys
May A Beydoun
National Institute on Aging, National Institute of Health, Intramural Research Program, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
J Nutr 141:903-13. 2011
..S. adults with MetS, for the prevention of type 2 diabetes and various cardiovascular endpoints...
- The association of fast food, fruit and vegetable prices with dietary intakes among US adults: is there modification by family income?
May A Beydoun
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, 615 N Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, United States
Soc Sci Med 66:2218-29. 2008
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- Trends and correlates in meat consumption patterns in the US adult population
Youfa Wang
Department of International Health, Center for Human Nutrition, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Public Health Nutr 13:1333-45. 2010
..Few studies have examined recent shifts in meat consumption (MC), differences among US population groups, and the influence of psychosocial-behavioural factors...
- How much of racial/ethnic disparities in dietary intakes, exercise, and weight status can be explained by nutrition- and health-related psychosocial factors and socioeconomic status among US adults?
Youfa Wang
Department of International Health, Center for Human Nutrition, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 111:1904-11. 2011
..5%) in the racial/ethnic differences when controlling for SES. In conclusion, NHRPF may explain very few, but SES may contribute some of the racial/ethnic disparities in diet, exercise, and weight status in the United States...
- Who is missing the message? Targeting strategies to increase food label use among US adults
Xiaoli Chen
Department of International Health, Center for Human Nutrition, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Public Health Nutr 15:760-72. 2012
..To evaluate the associations between sociodemographic and psychosocial characteristics and food label (FL) use in US adults...
- Pathways linking socioeconomic status to obesity through depression and lifestyle factors among young US adults
May A Beydoun
National Institute on Aging, NIA NIH IRP, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Affect Disord 123:52-63. 2010
..Future prospective studies are needed to examine potential mechanisms using physiological markers of depression, lifestyle and obesity...
- Tracking of blood pressure from childhood to adulthood: a systematic review and meta-regression analysis
Xiaoli Chen
Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health Johns Hopkins University, 615 N Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Circulation 117:3171-80. 2008
..A large number of studies have examined the tracking of blood pressure (BP) from childhood to adulthood, but the reported findings are inconsistent and few systematic analyses have been conducted...
- Disparities in pediatric obesity in the United States
Youfa Wang
Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Adv Nutr 2:23-31. 2011
..g. white children and adolescents. Vigorous, effective interventions are needed to promote healthy lifestyles among U.S. young people and to reduce disparities in obesity...
- Measured body mass index, body weight perception, dissatisfaction and control practices in urban, low-income African American adolescents
Youfa Wang
Center for Human Nutrition, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
BMC Public Health 9:183. 2009
..The knowledge can help direct future intervention efforts...
- Ethnic differences in dairy and related nutrient consumption among US adults and their association with obesity, central obesity, and the metabolic syndrome
May A Beydoun
Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Center for Human Nutrition, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 87:1914-25. 2008
..Recent studies suggest dairy consumption and associated nutrients may be protective against some of the components of the metabolic syndrome (MetS)...
- The influence of sexual maturation on blood pressure and body fatness in African-American adolescent girls and boys
Xiaoli Chen
Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Am J Hum Biol 21:105-12. 2009
..In boys, a marginally significant reverse association (beta = -1.05 to -1.19) between SM stages and DBP was detected. SM affects BP and body fatness in girls, and should be considered in assessment of BP and obesity in adolescents...
- Do nutrition knowledge and beliefs modify the association of socio-economic factors and diet quality among US adults?
May A Beydoun
Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe St E2546, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Prev Med 46:145-53. 2008
..We examined effects of socio-economic status (SES) factors on diet quality and fruits and vegetables intake among US adults and effect modification by nutrition knowledge and beliefs...
- Increasing consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages among US adults: 1988-1994 to 1999-2004
Sara N Bleich
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 89:372-81. 2009
..Consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) has been linked to obesity and type 2 diabetes...
- Obesity and related risk factors among low socio-economic status minority students in Chicago
Youfa Wang
Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Public Health Nutr 10:927-38. 2007
..To assess overweight and related risk factors among urban low socio-economic status (SES) African-American adolescents in an attempt to study the underlying causes of ethnicity and gender disparities in overweight...
- The obesity epidemic in the United States--gender, age, socioeconomic, racial/ethnic, and geographic characteristics: a systematic review and meta-regression analysis
Youfa Wang
Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Epidemiol Rev 29:6-28. 2007
..The associations of obesity with gender, age, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status are complex and dynamic. Related population-based programs and policies are needed...
- Gender-ethnic disparity in BMI and waist circumference distribution shifts in US adults
May A Beydoun
Department of International Health, Center for Human Nutrition, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 17:169-76. 2009
..8 and 70.7% by 2020. Shifts in BMI and WC distribution varied across age-, gender-, and ethnic groups. Future rise in the obesity and central obesity prevalence rates are expected, but would vary by demographic groups...
- Worldwide trends in dairy production and consumption and calcium intake: is promoting consumption of dairy products a sustainable solution for inadequate calcium intake?
Youfa Wang
Center for Human Nutrition, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 North Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Food Nutr Bull 29:172-85. 2008
..Adequate calcium intake is critical for good health. Inadequate calcium intake is a worldwide problem and is more serious in countries where consumption of dairy products is low...
- Association of adiposity status and changes in early to mid-adulthood with incidence of Alzheimer's disease
May A Beydoun
Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA
Am J Epidemiol 168:1179-89. 2008
..70, 95% CI: 1.43, 9.56). Future studies should identify age- and gender-specific optimal weights and weight-loss strategies for preventing AD and investigate potential mechanisms...
- Parent-child dietary intake resemblance in the United States: evidence from a large representative survey
May A Beydoun
Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Center for Human Nutrition, Baltimore, MD 21205, United States
Soc Sci Med 68:2137-44. 2009
..Factors other than parental eating behaviors seem to play an important role in affecting American young people's dietary intake...
- Americans with diet-related chronic diseases report higher diet quality than those without these diseases
Xiaoli Chen
Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, Behavior and Society, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Nutr 141:1543-51. 2011
..Efforts are needed to promote healthy eating among Americans with diet-related chronic diseases; nutrition education and promotion of FL use may help...
- The impact of blood pressure on the risk for cardiovascular diseases: what should be done now?
Youfa Wang
Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Am J Hypertens 21:247. 2008
- Are American children and adolescents of low socioeconomic status at increased risk of obesity? Changes in the association between overweight and family income between 1971 and 2002
Youfa Wang
Center for Human Nutrition, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 84:707-16. 2006
..A good understanding of the association between obesity and socioeconomic status (SES) has many important public health and policies implications, particularly for the prevention and management of obesity...
- Worldwide trends in childhood overweight and obesity
Youfa Wang
Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Int J Pediatr Obes 1:11-25. 2006
..This paper summarises the available information on recent trends in child overweight and obesity prevalence...
- The global childhood obesity epidemic and the association between socio-economic status and childhood obesity
Youfa Wang
Johns Hopkins Global Center for Childhood Obesity, Department of International Health, Human Nutrition Program, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Int Rev Psychiatry 24:176-88. 2012
..In general, SES groups with greater access to energy-dense diets (low-SES in industrialized countries and high-SES in developing countries) are at increased risk of being obese than their counterparts...
- Epidemic of childhood obesity: implications for kidney disease
Youfa Wang
Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Adv Chronic Kidney Dis 13:336-51. 2006
..Future studies in the pediatric populations are needed...
- Is sleep duration associated with childhood obesity? A systematic review and meta-analysis
Xiaoli Chen
Department of International Health, Center for Human Nutrition, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 16:265-74. 2008
- Limitations of the current world health organization growth references for children and adolescents
Youfa Wang
Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Food Nutr Bull 27:S175-88. 2006
..There is a need for a single international reference to assess the nutritional status and growth of school-aged children and adolescents across different countries...
- Tracking of dietary intake patterns is associated with baseline characteristics of urban low-income African-American adolescents
Ji Li
Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Nutr 138:94-100. 2008
..Decreased energy and snack intakes were negatively related to tracking of high BMI. Overall, urban low-income African-American adolescents tracked their dietary patterns over time. The tracking was affected by baseline characteristics...
- Have Americans increased their fruit and vegetable intake? The trends between 1988 and 2002
Sarah Stark Casagrande
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Am J Prev Med 32:257-63. 2007
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- Sociodemographic disparities in the composition of metabolic syndrome components among adults in South Korea
Hyunjung Lim
Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Diabetes Care 35:2028-35. 2012
..The SES-MetS association was not found in men. Central obesity + low HDL-C + hypertriglyceridemia was the most common MetS pattern regardless of the SES...
- Commentary: Obesity and mortality--light at the end but still a long tunnel
Benjamin Caballero
Center for Human Nutrition, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Int J Epidemiol 35:21-2. 2006
- Impacts of measurement protocols on blood pressure tracking from childhood into adulthood: a metaregression analysis
Xiaoli Chen
Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Hopkins University, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University, 615 N Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Hypertension 51:642-9. 2008
..In general, Korotkoff phase 4 seems to be different from Korotkoff phase 5, and automated device is a promising approach for BP assessment in childhood...
- Is obesity associated with early sexual maturation? A comparison of the association in American boys versus girls
Youfa Wang
Department of Human Nutrition and Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
Pediatrics 110:903-10. 2002
..Earlier maturing girls are more likely to be obese than nonearly maturers. However, limited research has been conducted in boys...
- Socioeconomic inequality of obesity in the United States: do gender, age, and ethnicity matter?
Qi Zhang
Department of Medicine, MC2007, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Soc Sci Med 58:1171-80. 2004
..Our analyses suggested that gender, age, and ethnicity could be important factors on socioeconomic inequality in obesity...
- Trends in the association between obesity and socioeconomic status in U.S. adults: 1971 to 2000
Qi Zhang
Section of General Internal Medicine, University of Chicago, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, MC 2007, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Obes Res 12:1622-32. 2004
..To study the secular trends in the disparity of obesity across socioeconomic status (SES) groups among U.S. adults...
- Obesity and risk factors for the metabolic syndrome among low-income, urban, African American schoolchildren: the rule rather than the exception?
Carol L Braunschweig
Department of Human Nutrition, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 81:970-5. 2005
..School-based obesity screening programs may effectively target high-risk populations...
- The association between amount of cigarettes smoked and overweight, central obesity among Chinese adults in Nanjing, China
Fei Xu
Nanjing Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, PR China
Asia Pac J Clin Nutr 16:240-7. 2007
..To examine the association between overweight, central obesity and cigarette smoking (total amount of cigarettes smoked [TACS] and status)...
- Culturally appropriate approaches are needed to reduce ethnic disparity in childhood obesity
Youfa Wang
J Am Diet Assoc 104:1664-6. 2004
- Comparison of abdominal adiposity and overall obesity in predicting risk of type 2 diabetes among men
Youfa Wang
Department of Human Nutrition and Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 81:555-63. 2005
..However, few studies have compared the predictive power of overall obesity with that of central obesity. The cutoffs for waist circumference (WC) and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) as measures of abdominal adiposity remain controversial...
- Why do some overweight children remain overweight, whereas others do not?
Youfa Wang
Department of Human Nutrition, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Illinois at Chicago UIC, 1919 W Taylor Street, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Public Health Nutr 6:549-58. 2003
..To study the dynamics of childhood overweight and the influence of dietary intake on tracking of overweight...
- How do statistical properties influence findings of tracking (maintenance) in epidemiologic studies? An example of research in tracking of obesity
Youfa Wang
Department of Human Nutrition, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Eur J Epidemiol 18:1037-45. 2003
..Our proposed methods and predicted probabilities of tracking can help test whether one's observed tracking patterns are different from the statistically predicted ones...
- Using concentration index to study changes in socio-economic inequality of overweight among US adolescents between 1971 and 2002
Qi Zhang
School of Community and Environmental Health, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529, USA
Int J Epidemiol 36:916-25. 2007
..The prevalence of overweight among adolescents continues to increase in the United States. This study examines the changes in socio-economic status (SES) inequality of overweight among US adolescents in the past three decades...
- Different risk factor patterns for metabolic syndrome in men with spinal cord injury compared with able-bodied men despite similar prevalence rates
Huifang Liang
Department of Human Nutrition, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 88:1198-204. 2007
..To determine if the prevalence of metabolic syndrome and risk factors differs between age- and race-matched men with spinal cord injury (SCI) and able-bodied men...
- The prevalence of prehypertension and hypertension among US adults according to the new joint national committee guidelines: new challenges of the old problem
Youfa Wang
Department of Human Nutrition, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Arch Intern Med 164:2126-34. 2004
..Little is known about the current situation of elevated blood pressure in the United States, according to the new guidelines...
