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Open AccessFamily systems approaches in pediatric obesity management: a sco** review
Family-based obesity management interventions targeting child, adolescent and parental lifestyle behaviour modifications have shown promising results. Further intervening on the family system may lead to great...
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Open AccessThe longitudinal effects of maternal parenting practices on children’s body mass index z-scores are lagged and differential
The longitudinal relation between parenting practices and styles with children’s body mass index z-scores (zBMI) is poorly understood. Previous studies suggest the relationship may be complex, but small sample...
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Open AccessCorrection: Validation of desk‑based audits using Google Street View® to monitor the obesogenic potential of neighbourhoods in a pediatric sample: a pilot study in the QUALITY cohort
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Associations between family functioning during early to mid-childhood and weight status in childhood and adolescence: findings from a Quebec birth cohort
Impaired family functioning has been associated with obesity in children and adolescents, but few longitudinal studies exist. We examined whether family functioning from early to mid-childhood is associated wi...
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Open AccessValidation of desk-based audits using Google Street View® to monitor the obesogenic potential of neighbourhoods in a pediatric sample: a pilot study in the QUALITY cohort
The suitability of geospatial services for auditing neighbourhood features relevant to pediatric obesity remains largely unexplored. Our objectives were to (i) establish the measurement properties of a desk-ba...
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Neighborhood built environment typologies and adiposity in children and adolescents
Neighborhoods are complex, multidimensional systems. However, the interrelation between multiple neighborhood dimensions is seldom considered in relation to youth adiposity. We created a neighborhood typology ...
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Open AccessDeterminants of new onset cardiometabolic risk among normal weight children
To identify determinants for the development of “normal weight metabolically unhealthy” (NWMU) profiles among previously metabolically healthy normal weight children.
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Open AccessA reliability assessment of a direct-observation park evaluation tool: the Parks, activity and recreation among kids (PARK) tool
Parks are increasingly being viewed as a resource that may influence youth obesity and physical activity (PA). Assessing park quality can be challenging as few tools assess park characteristics geared towards ...
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Open AccessIdentifying risk profiles for childhood obesity using recursive partitioning based on individual, familial, and neighborhood environment factors
Few studies consider how risk factors within multiple levels of influence operate synergistically to determine childhood obesity. We used recursive partitioning analysis to identify unique combinations of indi...
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Open AccessTransportation noise and annoyance related to road traffic in the French RECORD study
Road traffic and related noise is a major source of annoyance and impairment to health in urban areas. Many areas exposed to road traffic noise are also exposed to rail and air traffic noise. The resulting ann...
