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June 2025

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Virtual Issue: Continuing the Progress in Pediatric Obesity Care

While there have been major strides in prevention and treatment efforts around childhood obesity over the past decade, including anti-obesity medication and multilevel intervention approaches, there is still a lot of work to be done. Specifically, there is a need to make our efforts in this area equitable, scalable, and sustainable. The Pediatric Obesity Section of The Obesity Society has put together a selection of recent Obesity articles that highlight these issues in childhood obesity research and treatment.

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ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Open access

Associations of dietary patterns and obesity development in school-aged children: results from the CHILD Cohort Study

Zheng Hao Chen, Gabrielle Jacobson, Myrtha E. Reyna, Paula Parvulescu, Russell J. de Souza, Mark R. Palmert, Wendy Lou, Susan C. Campisi, Elinor Simons, Stuart E. Turvey, Theo J. Moraes, Piushkumar J. Mandhane, Padmaja Subbarao, Kozeta Miliku, 
  •  18 June 2025
REVIEW
Open access

Improving the diagnosis of hyperphagia in melanocortin‐4 receptor pathway diseases

M. Jennifer Abuzzahab, Beatrice Dubern, Anthony P. Goldstone, Andrea M. Haqq, Steven B. Heymsfield, Jennifer L. Miller, Jesse Richards, Martin Wabitsch, Jack A. Yanovski, 
  •  17 June 2025
ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Food insecurity and the risk of diabetes: understanding the role of BMI as a mediator and moderator

Cindy W. Leung, Alessandra Uriarte, Minal R. Patel, Markell Miller, Eileen Spring, Julia A. Wolfson, Alicia J. Cohen, Michele Heisler, Wei Hao, 
  •  17 June 2025
ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Variations in weight loss and glycemic outcomes after sleeve gastrectomy by race and ethnicity

Sally M. Vanegas, Silvia Curado, Boyan Zhou, Nicholas Illenberger, Ericka N. Merriwether, Evelyn Armijos, Ann Marie Schmidt, Christine Ren-Fielding, Manish Parikh, Brian Elbel, José O. Alemán, Melanie Jay, 
  •  16 June 2025
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Open access

Effects of obesity‐associated plasma markers on adipose stem cell function and epigenetic regulation

Andressa França Sousa Bispo, Jussara de Jesus Simao, Miguel Ambrizzi Moraes, Ana Beatriz Marques Abel, Victor Tadeu Gonçalves Plata, Monica Marques Telles, André Valente Santana, Paula Volpe, Lucia Maria Armelin-Correa, Maria Isabel Cardoso Alonso-Vale, 
  •  16 June 2025
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Articles with the most citations published in the Last 2 Years according to CrossRef. The citation counts listed reflect the total number of all citations to date.

Open access

Nutritional considerations with antiobesity medications

Jaime P. Almandoz, Thomas A. Wadden, Colleen Tewksbury, Caroline M. Apovian, Angela Fitch, Jamy D. Ard, Zhaoping Li, Jesse Richards, W. Scott Butsch, Irina Jouravskaya, Kadie S. Vanderman, Lisa M. Neff, 
  • Obesity
  •  1613-1631
  •  10 June 2024

Efficacy and safety of tirzepatide, GLP-1 receptor agonists, and other weight loss drugs in overweight and obesity: a network meta-analysis

Xin-Hui Pan, Bryan Tan, Yip Han Chin, Ethan Cheng Zhe Lee, Gwyneth Kong, Bryan Chong, Martin Kueh, Chin Meng Khoo, Anurag Mehta, Priyanka Majety, Gowtham R. Grandhi, Georgios K. Dimitriadis, Roger Foo, Nicholas W. S. Chew, Carel W. Le Roux, Mamas A. Mamas, Mark Y. Chan, 
  • Obesity
  •  840-856
  •  27 February 2024
Open access

Impact of nutritional-behavioral and supervised exercise intervention following bariatric surgery: The BARI-LIFESTYLE randomized controlled trial

Friedrich C. Jassil, Alisia Carnemolla, Helen Kingett, Jacqueline Doyle, Amy Kirk, Neville Lewis, Gemma Montagut, Parastou Marvasti, David Boniface, Adrian Brown, Kusuma Chaiyasoot, Roxanna Zakeri, Jessica Mok, Kalpana Devalia, Chetan Parmar, Rachel L. Batterham, 
  • Obesity
  •  2031-2042
  •  6 July 2023
Open access

Early- and later-stage persistence with antiobesity medications: A retrospective cohort study

Hamlet Gasoyan, Elizabeth R. Pfoh, Rebecca Schulte, Phuc Le, Michael B. Rothberg, 
  • Obesity
  •  486-493
  •  6 December 2023

Behavioral weight loss outcomes in individuals with binge‐eating disorder: A meta‐analysis

Evan M. Forman, Brittney C. Evans, Michael P. Berry, Elizabeth W. Lampe, Christina Chwyl, Fengqing Zhang, 
  • Obesity
  •  1981-1995
  •  21 July 2023
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The most read articles published in the Last 12 Months

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Nutritional priorities to support GLP-1 therapy for obesity: A joint Advisory from the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, the American Society for Nutrition, the Obesity Medicine Association, and The Obesity Society

Dariush Mozaffarian, Monica Agarwal, Monica Aggarwal, Lydia Alexander, Caroline M. Apovian, Shagun Bindlish, Jonathan Bonnet, W. Scott Butsch, Sandra Christensen, Eugenia Gianos, Mahima Gulati, Alka Gupta, Debbie Horn, Ryan M. Kane, Jasdeep Saluja, Deepa Sannidhi, Fatima Cody Stanford, Emily A. Callahan, 
  • Obesity
  •  30 May 2025
Open access

GLP-1 therapy increases visceral adipose tissue metabolic activity: lessons from a randomized controlled trial in obstructive sleep apnea

Cliona O'Donnell, Odhrán Ryan, Andrew E. Hogan, Desmond Killick, Shane Crilly, Jonathan D. Dodd, David J. Murphy, Silke Ryan, Donal O'Shea, 
  • Obesity
  •  2077-2081
  •  22 Aug 2024
Open access

Weight maintenance on cost-effective antiobesity medications after 1 year of GLP-1 receptor agonist therapy: a real-world study

Nina U. Paddu, Brianna Lawrence, Sydnee Wong, Sabrina J. Poon, Gitanjali Srivastava, 
  • Obesity
  •  2255-2263
  •  18 Nov 2024
Open access

GLP1Ra-based therapies and DXA-acquired musculoskeletal health outcomes: a focused meta-analysis of placebo-controlled trials

Kristen M. Beavers, Tiffany M. Cortes, Colleen M. Foy, Lauren Dinkla, Fernando Reyes San Martin, Jamy D. Ard, Monica C. Serra, Daniel P. Beavers, 
  • Obesity
  •  225-237
  •  22 Dec 2024
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