SynthesisObesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity2021
State-of-the-art of measures of the obesogenic environment for children.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 28 citations in OpenAlex.
- A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Studies Exploring the Link Between Physical Inactivity and Indicators of Childhood Overweight/Obesity and Metabolically Unhealthy Obesity Risk in Western Countries.Current obesity reports · 2026Pooled it
- The Impact of Maternal Obesity on Offspring Cardiovascular Health: A Systematic Literature Review.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2022Pooled it
- State-of-the-art of measures of the obesogenic environment for children.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2021Pooled it
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- Measurement tools to assess the obesogenic environment in neighborhood: a scoping review.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Interplay between genetic risk and built neighborhood conditions as predictor of BMI across the transition into adulthood.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2025Article
- Offspring's exposome: a narrative review on the influence of early-life factors on childhood obesity risk.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Review
- Assessing the built environment through photographs and its association with obesity in 21 countries: the PURE Study.The Lancet. Global health · 2024Article
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- State of the Art of Lifecourse Cohort Establishment.China CDC weekly · 2024Article
- Obesogenic neighborhood environment is associated with body fat and low-grade inflammation in Brazilian children: could the mother's BMI be a mediating factor?Public health nutrition · 2023Article
- Transportation and language access as crucial pillars for an immigrant-inclusive 21st-century food security program.Public health nutrition · 2023Article
- Eating Behavior and Obesity in a Sample of Spanish Schoolchildren.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Preschool teachers display a flexible pattern of pedagogical actions in promoting healthy habits in children.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- The link between gentrification, children's egocentric food environment, and obesity.Housing policy debate · 2023Article
- Energy Imbalance Gap, Anthropometric Measures, Lifestyle, and Sociodemographic Correlates in Latin American Adults-Results from the ELANS Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Comparison of neighborhood deprivation index and food desert status as environmental predictors of early childhood obesity.International public health journal · 2022Article
- A changed research landscape of youth's obesogenic behaviours and environments in the post-COVID-19 era.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2021Article
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13 authors at 7 institutions in 5 countries.
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Abstract
Various measures of the obesogenic environment have been proposed and used in childhood obesity research. The variety of measures poses methodological challenges to designing new research because methodological characteristics integral to developing the measures vary across studies. A systematic review has been conducted to examine the associations between different levels of obesogenic environmental measures (objective or perceived) and childhood obesity. The review includes all articles published in the Cochrane Library, PubMed, Web of Science and Scopus by 31 December 2018. A total of 339 associations in 101 studies have been identified from 18 countries, of which 78 are cross-sectional. Overall, null associations are predominant. Among studies with non-null associations, negative relationships between healthy food outlets in residential neighbourhoods and childhood obesity is found in seven studies; positive associations between unhealthy food outlets and childhood obesity are found in eight studies, whereas negative associations are found in three studies. Measures of recreational or physical activity facilities around the participants' home are also negatively correlated to childhood obesity in nine out of 15 studies. Results differ by the types of measurement, environmental indicators and geographic units used to characterize obesogenic environments in residential and school neighbourhoods. To improve the study quality and compare reported findings, a reporting standard for spatial epidemiological research should be adopted.
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