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Socio-economic position as an intervention against overweight and obesity in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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44 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- The divergent association of diet intake, parental education, and nutrition policy with childhood overweight and obesity from low- to high-income countries: A meta-analysis.Journal of global health · 2024Pooled it
- Quantifying the increased risk of illness in malnourished children: a global meta-analysis and propensity score matching approach.Global health research and policy · 2024Pooled it
- Socio-economic and cultural disparities in diet among adolescents and young adults: a systematic review.Public health nutrition · 2020Pooled it
- Caregiver involvement in interventions for improving children's dietary intake and physical activity behaviors.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Twelve-month effectiveness of telephone and SMS support to mothers with children aged 2 years in reducing children's BMI: a randomized controlled trial.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2023Trial
- Process and effect evaluation of the app-based parenting programFrontiers in public health · 2022Trial
- The impact of a community-based intervention on weight, weight-related behaviours and health-related quality of life in primary school children in Victoria, Australia, according to socio-economic position.BMC public health · 2021Trial
- Social status and energy intake: a randomized controlled experiment.Clinical obesity · 2017Trial
- Parental Country of Birth and Socioeconomic Disadvantage in Childhood Overweight and Obesity: Evidence From the Growing Healthy Kids Study.AJPM focus · 2026Article
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- The Genetic Blueprint of Obesity: From Pathogenesis to Novel Therapies.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025Review
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- Early Life Determinants of Overweight and Obesity in a Sample of Mexico City Preschoolers.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Structural equation modeling of the association between oral health literacy and dental caries in children.Brazilian oral research · 2025Article
- Income and education disparities in childhood malnutrition: a multi-country decomposition analysis.BMC public health · 2024Article
- The Return on Investment for the Prevention and Treatment of Childhood and Adolescent Overweight and Obesity in Beijing: A Modeling Study.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Familial confounding of internalising symptoms and obesity in adolescents and young adults; a co-twin analysis.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2024Article
- Barriers and facilitators to parents' engagement with and perceived impact of a childhood obesity app: A mixed-methods study.PLOS digital health · 2024Article
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Abstract
Studies that investigated the association between socio-economic position (SEP) and obesity in children suggest inconsistent results. The aim of this study is to summarize and quantify the current evidence on SEP and risks of overweight and obesity in children aged 0-15 years. Relevant studies published between 1990 to Sep 4, 2014 were searched in Medline, Web of Science, Embase, and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Risk estimates from individual studies were pooled using random-effects models, according to lowest vs the highest SEP category. A total of 62 articles were included in the meta-analysis. The odds of both overweight risk and obesity risk were higher in the children with lowest SEP than in those with highest SEP (OR, 1.10, 95% CI: 1.03-1.17, and OR, 1.41, 95% CI: 1.29-1.55, respectively). Sub-group analyses showed that the inverse relationships between SEP and childhood overweight and obesity were only found in high-income countries and in more economic developed areas. In conclusion, our study suggests that children with lower SEP had higher risks of overweight and obesity, and the increased risks were independent of the income levels of countries.
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