Mind the Gap: Race/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Disparities in Obesity

Trends in SSBs and snack consumption among children by age, body weight, and race/ethnicity

(2015) Sara N. Bleich et al.   Obesity

Changes in Socioeconomic, Racial/Ethnic, and Sex Disparities in Childhood Obesity at School Entry in the United States

(2015) Ashlesha Datar et al.   JAMA Pediatrics

Biogeographic Ancestry Is Associated with Higher Total Body Adiposity among African-American Females: The Boston Area Community Health Survey

(2015) Sunali D. Goonesekera et al.   PLoS One

Obesity, Abdominal Obesity, Physical Activity, and Caloric Intake in US Adults: 1988 to 2010

(2014) Uri Ladabaum et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Low Fitness Partially Explains Resting Metabolic Rate Differences Between African American and White Women

(2014) Robin P. Shook et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Distance to Store, Food Prices, and Obesity in Urban Food Deserts

(2014) Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

A Metabolic–Epidemiological Microsimulation Model to Estimate the Changes in Energy Intake and Physical Activity Necessary to Meet the Healthy People 2020 Obesity Objective

(2014) Sanjay Basu et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Using Social Network Analysis to Clarify the Role of Obesity in Selection of Adolescent Friends

(2014) David R. Schaefer et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Reducing racial disparities in obesity: simulating the effects of improved education and social network influence on diet behavior

(2014) Mark G. Orr et al.   ANNALS OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Do sleep-deprived adolescents make less-healthy food choices?

(2014) Allison K. Kruger et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Ethnic variation in the association between sleep and body mass among US adolescents

(2014) E N Reither et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBESITY

Prevalence of Childhood and Adult Obesity in the United States, 2011-2012

(2014) Cynthia L. Ogden et al.   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Race/ethnicity, nativity and trends in BMI among U.S. adults

(2014) Patrick M. Krueger et al.   Obesity

Increasing socioeconomic disparities in adolescent obesity

(2014) C. B. Frederick et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Paternal obesity is associated with IGF2hypomethylation in newborns: results from a Newborn Epigenetics Study (NEST) cohort

(2013) Adelheid Soubry et al.   BMC Medicine

Ancestral dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) exposure promotes epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of obesity

(2013) Michael K Skinner et al.   BMC Medicine

Unveiling the longitudinal association between short sleep duration and the incidence of obesity: the Penn State Cohort

(2013) A N Vgontzas et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBESITY

Increasing the Percentage of Energy from Dietary Sugar, Fats, and Alcohol in Adults Is Associated with Increased Energy Intake but Has Minimal Association with Biomarkers of Cardiovascular Risk

(2013) Gregory L. Austin et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Disparities in Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened and Other Beverages by Race/Ethnicity and Obesity Status among United States Schoolchildren

(2013) Allison Hedley Dodd et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITION EDUCATION AND BEHAVIOR

Sleep duration and body mass index and waist circumference among Us adults

(2013) Earl S. Ford et al.   Obesity

Which type of sedentary behaviour intervention is more effective at reducing body mass index in children? A meta-analytic review

(2013) Y. Liao et al.   Obesity Reviews

Sleep Duration and Adolescent Obesity

(2013) J. A. Mitchell et al.   PEDIATRICS

Plastics Derived Endocrine Disruptors (BPA, DEHP and DBP) Induce Epigenetic Transgenerational Inheritance of Obesity, Reproductive Disease and Sperm Epimutations

(2013) Mohan Manikkam et al.   PLoS One

The intersection of neighborhood racial segregation, poverty, and urbanicity and its impact on food store availability in the United States

(2013) Kelly M. Bower et al.   PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

Dietary Intake Following Experimentally Restricted Sleep in Adolescents

(2013) Dean W. Beebe et al.   SLEEP

Effects of Experimental Sleep Restriction on Weight Gain, Caloric Intake, and Meal Timing in Healthy Adults

(2013) Andrea M. Spaeth et al.   SLEEP

Impact of Dietary and Exercise Interventions on Weight Change and Metabolic Outcomes in Obese Children and Adolescents

(2013) Mandy Ho et al.   JAMA Pediatrics

Reducing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Childhood Obesity

(2013) Elsie M. Taveras et al.   JAMA Pediatrics

Physical Activity and Screen-Time Viewing Among Elementary School–Aged Children in the United States From 2009 to 2010

(2013) Tala H. I. Fakhouri et al.   JAMA Pediatrics

Reaching the Healthy People Goals for Reducing Childhood Obesity

(2012) Y. Claire Wang et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

Family Socioeconomic Status and Sleep Patterns of Young Adolescents

(2012) Christine A. Marco et al.   Behavioral Sleep Medicine

A mathematical model of weight loss under total starvation: evidence against the thrifty-gene hypothesis

(2012) J. R. Speakman et al.   Disease Models & Mechanisms

Economic adversity and children’s sleep problems: Multiple indicators and moderation of effects.

(2012) Mona El-Sheikh et al.   HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY

Dietary factors, epigenetic modifications and obesity outcomes: Progresses and perspectives

(2012) F.I. Milagro et al.   MOLECULAR ASPECTS OF MEDICINE

Amerindians show association to obesity with adiponectin gene SNP45 and SNP276: population genetics of a food intake control and “thrifty” gene

(2012) Antonio Arnaiz-Villena et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REPORTS

Never Enough Sleep: A Brief History of Sleep Recommendations for Children

(2012) L. A. Matricciani et al.   PEDIATRICS

Is there a robust relationship between neighbourhood food environment and childhood obesity in the USA?

(2012) V. Shier et al.   PUBLIC HEALTH

The role of local food availability in explaining obesity risk among young school-aged children

(2012) Helen Lee   SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE

Disparities in Pediatric Obesity in the United States

(2012) Youfa Wang   Advances in Nutrition

Income and Race/Ethnicity Are Associated with Adherence to Food-Based Dietary Guidance among US Adults and Children

(2012) Sharon I. Kirkpatrick et al.   Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

Diet Quality of Americans Differs by Age, Sex, Race/Ethnicity, Income, and Education Level

(2012) Hazel A.B. Hiza et al.   Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

Food Insecurity and Weight Status Among U.S. Children and Families

(2011) Nicole I. Larson et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

Sedentary Behaviors and Subsequent Health Outcomes in Adults

(2011) Alicia A. Thorp et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

Contribution of Obesity to International Differences in Life Expectancy

(2011) Samuel H. Preston et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Does Race or Sex Moderate the Perceived Built Environment/Physical Activity Relationship in College Students?

(2011) Kathryn Lightfoot et al.   BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE

Maternal Environment and the Transgenerational Cycle of Obesity and Diabetes

(2011) D. Dabelea et al.   DIABETES

You are what your friends eat: systematic review of social network analyses of young people's eating behaviours and bodyweight

(2011) A. Fletcher et al.   JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH

Genetics and epigenetics of obesity

(2011) Blanca M. Herrera et al.   MATURITAS

Neighborhoods, Obesity, and Diabetes — A Randomized Social Experiment

(2011) Jens Ludwig et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Is food insecurity related to overweight and obesity in children and adolescents? A summary of studies, 1995-2009

(2011) J. C. Eisenmann et al.   Obesity Reviews

Trends over 5 Decades in U.S. Occupation-Related Physical Activity and Their Associations with Obesity

(2011) Timothy S. Church et al.   PLoS One

Relationships between hours of sleep and health-risk behaviors in US adolescent students

(2011) Lela R. McKnight-Eily et al.   PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

Income disparities in perceived neighborhood built and social environment attributes

(2011) James F. Sallis et al.   HEALTH & PLACE

Reestablishing Healthy Food Retail: Changing the Landscape of Food Deserts

(2011) Allison Karpyn et al.   Childhood Obesity

Association between sleep duration and body size differs among three Hispanic groups

(2010) Kristen L. Knutson   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN BIOLOGY

Role of sleep duration in the regulation of glucose metabolism and appetite

(2010) Lisa Morselli et al.   BEST PRACTICE & RESEARCH CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM

Heritability of body weight: Moving beyond genetics

(2010) P. Russo et al.   NUTRITION METABOLISM AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES

Racial, Socioeconomic, and Rural–Urban Disparities in Obesity-Related Bariatric Surgery

(2010) Amy E. Wallace et al.   OBESITY SURGERY

Built Environment and Weight Disparities Among Children in High- and Low-Income Towns

(2009) Nicolas M. Oreskovic et al.   Academic Pediatrics

Sleep Duration in the United States: A Cross-sectional Population-based Study

(2009) P. M. Krueger et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Trial of Family and Friend Support for Weight Loss in African American Adults

(2009) Shiriki K. Kumanyika et al.   ARCHIVES OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, and the Childhood Roots of Health Disparities

(2009) Jack P. Shonkoff et al.   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Exploiting Social Networks to Mitigate the Obesity Epidemic

(2009) David B. Bahr et al.   Obesity

One-year Weight Losses in the Look AHEAD Study: Factors Associated With Success

(2009) Thomas A. Wadden et al.   Obesity

Socioeconomic disparities in eligibility and access to bariatric surgery: a national population-based analysis

(2009) Matthew Martin et al.   Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases

Socio-demographic and built environment influences on the odds of being overweight or obese: The Atlanta experience

(2009) Tudor D. Bodea et al.   TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART A-POLICY AND PRACTICE

Neighborhood disorder, sleep quality, and psychological distress: Testing a model of structural amplification

(2009) Terrence D. Hill et al.   HEALTH & PLACE

Neighborhood effects on BMI trends: Examining BMI trajectories for Black and White women

(2009) Erin Ruel et al.   HEALTH & PLACE

The built environment and obesity: A systematic review of the epidemiologic evidence

(2009) Jing Feng et al.   HEALTH & PLACE

Do birth cohorts matter? Age-period-cohort analyses of the obesity epidemic in the United States

(2009) Eric N. Reither et al.   SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE

Epigenetics and the embodiment of race: Developmental origins of US racial disparities in cardiovascular health

(2008) Christopher W. Kuzawa et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN BIOLOGY

Racial/Ethnic, Socioeconomic, and Behavioral Determinants of Childhood and Adolescent Obesity in the United States: Analyzing Independent and Joint Associations

(2008) Gopal K. Singh et al.   ANNALS OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Is obesity contagious? Social networks vs. environmental factors in the obesity epidemic

(2008) Ethan Cohen-Cole et al.   JOURNAL OF HEALTH ECONOMICS

Neighborhoods and obesity

(2008) Jennifer L Black et al.   NUTRITION REVIEWS

Weight Loss of Black, White, and Hispanic Men and Women in the Diabetes Prevention Program

(2008) Delia S. West et al.   Obesity