Obesity Prevalence Among Children and Adolescents in the United States, 2011 to 2023

2025/06/30 by Michael Liu, Kosuke Inoue, Azariah Boyd +4 · 6 citations
Medicine · Health Professions · #Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet #Health and Lifestyle Studies #Obesity and Health Practices

paper · doi:10.7326/annals-25-00389

Abstract

Childhood obesity has increased in the United States over the past 3 decades (1).There is growing concern that societal shifts related to the COVID-19 pandemic (for example, school closures and heightened family stress) exacerbated the childhood obesity crisis through

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