Prevention of obesity is a global, overwhelming, public health emergency. Existing data suggests that childhood obesity is a multifactorial disease; the time has come to examine risk and protective factors with the aim of successfully preventing and treating this complex disease before adulthood.
Accordingly, the goal of this article collection is to identify key points in childhood when divergence from obesity and adult obesity development is possible, as well as tools to escape predefined disease pathways. These studies will contribute to answering the all-important question: how can we develop feasible and effective primary and secondary childhood and adolescent obesity prevention programs?
This Research Topic will evaluate the effectiveness of detecting modifiable, compromising, and protective factors, innovative prevention and care programs, as well as novel collaborative solutions to confer lifetime reduced disease and precocious death risk. Strategies are expected to converge, leading to elucidating conclusions and guiding clinical and societal action.
Specific themes include, but are not limited to:
1. Understanding pediatric obesity etiology and its lifetime and intergenerational effects;
2. Developmental pathways and their impact on the child’s future disease and precocious death risk;
3. Role of social determinants of health in having and maintaining a healthy weight;
4. Diagnostic and predictive biomarkers in pediatric obesity and its complications;
5. Role of genetic factors in predicting and preventing childhood obesity;
6. Treatment strategies for childhood and adolescent obesity;
7. Novel, evidence-based, and clinically applicable prevention frameworks.
Types of manuscripts:
1. Reviews;
2. Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis;
3. Original Research: Survey, Experimental and Clinical Studies;
4. Case Studies
Prevention of obesity is a global, overwhelming, public health emergency. Existing data suggests that childhood obesity is a multifactorial disease; the time has come to examine risk and protective factors with the aim of successfully preventing and treating this complex disease before adulthood.
Accordingly, the goal of this article collection is to identify key points in childhood when divergence from obesity and adult obesity development is possible, as well as tools to escape predefined disease pathways. These studies will contribute to answering the all-important question: how can we develop feasible and effective primary and secondary childhood and adolescent obesity prevention programs?
This Research Topic will evaluate the effectiveness of detecting modifiable, compromising, and protective factors, innovative prevention and care programs, as well as novel collaborative solutions to confer lifetime reduced disease and precocious death risk. Strategies are expected to converge, leading to elucidating conclusions and guiding clinical and societal action.
Specific themes include, but are not limited to:
1. Understanding pediatric obesity etiology and its lifetime and intergenerational effects;
2. Developmental pathways and their impact on the child’s future disease and precocious death risk;
3. Role of social determinants of health in having and maintaining a healthy weight;
4. Diagnostic and predictive biomarkers in pediatric obesity and its complications;
5. Role of genetic factors in predicting and preventing childhood obesity;
6. Treatment strategies for childhood and adolescent obesity;
7. Novel, evidence-based, and clinically applicable prevention frameworks.
Types of manuscripts:
1. Reviews;
2. Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis;
3. Original Research: Survey, Experimental and Clinical Studies;
4. Case Studies
