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| Obesity: preventing and managing the global epidemic: report of a WHO consultation World Health Organization World Health Organization, 2000 | 28338 | 2000 |
| Establishing a standard definition for child overweight and obesity worldwide: international survey TJ Cole, MC Bellizzi, KM Flegal, WH Dietz Bmj 320 (7244), 1240, 2000 | 21813 | 2000 |
| Prevalence of the metabolic syndrome among US adults: findings from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey ES Ford, WH Giles, WH Dietz Jama 287 (3), 356-359, 2002 | 10877 | 2002 |
| Clinical guidelines for the identification, evaluation, and treatment of overweight and obesity in adults-the evidence report National Institutes of Health Obes res 6 (2), 51S-209S, 1998 | 8098* | 1998 |
| Prevalence of obesity, diabetes, and obesity-related health risk factors, 2001 AH Mokdad, ES Ford, BA Bowman, WH Dietz, F Vinicor, VS Bales, ... Jama 289 (1), 76-79, 2003 | 7951 | 2003 |
| The disease burden associated with overweight and obesity A Must, J Spadano, EH Coakley, AE Field, G Colditz, WH Dietz Jama 282 (16), 1523-1529, 1999 | 6741 | 1999 |
| Predicting obesity in young adulthood from childhood and parental obesity RC Whitaker, JA Wright, MS Pepe, KD Seidel, WH Dietz New England journal of medicine 337 (13), 869-873, 1997 | 6740 | 1997 |
| Annual Medical Spending Attributable To Obesity: Payer-And Service-Specific Estimates: Amid calls for health reform, real cost savings are more likely to be achieved through … EA Finkelstein, JG Trogdon, JW Cohen, W Dietz Health affairs 28 (Suppl1), w822-w831, 2009 | 4506 | 2009 |
| Health consequences of obesity in youth: childhood predictors of adult disease WH Dietz Pediatrics 101 (Supplement_2), 518-525, 1998 | 4384 | 1998 |
| The relation of overweight to cardiovascular risk factors among children and adolescents: the Bogalusa Heart Study DS Freedman, WH Dietz, SR Srinivasan, GS Berenson Pediatrics 103 (6), 1175-1182, 1999 | 3998 | 1999 |
| Prevalence of a metabolic syndrome phenotype in adolescents: findings from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-1994 S Cook, M Weitzman, P Auinger, M Nguyen, WH Dietz Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine 157 (8), 821-827, 2003 | 3644 | 2003 |
| Long-term morbidity and mortality of overweight adolescents: a follow-up of the Harvard Growth Study of 1922 to 1935 A Must, PF Jacques, GE Dallal, CJ Bajema, WH Dietz New England journal of medicine 327 (19), 1350-1355, 1992 | 3488 | 1992 |
| The spread of the obesity epidemic in the United States, 1991-1998 AH Mokdad, MK Serdula, WH Dietz, BA Bowman, JS Marks, JP Koplan Jama 282 (16), 1519-1522, 1999 | 3333 | 1999 |
| Social and economic consequences of overweight in adolescence and young adulthood SL Gortmaker, A Must, JM Perrin, AM Sobol, WH Dietz New England journal of medicine 329 (14), 1008-1012, 1993 | 2671 | 1993 |
| The global syndemic of obesity, undernutrition, and climate change: the Lancet Commission report BA Swinburn, VI Kraak, S Allender, VJ Atkins, PI Baker, JR Bogard, ... The lancet 393 (10173), 791-846, 2019 | 2660 | 2019 |
| Obesity evaluation and treatment: expert committee recommendations SE Barlow, WH Dietz Pediatrics 102 (3), e29-e29, 1998 | 2642 | 1998 |
| Impact of overweight on the risk of developing common chronic diseases during a 10-year period AE Field, EH Coakley, A Must, JL Spadano, N Laird, WH Dietz, E Rimm, ... Archives of internal medicine 161 (13), 1581-1586, 2001 | 2436 | 2001 |
| Do we fatten our children at the television set? Obesity and television viewing in children and adolescents WH Dietz Jr, SL Gortmaker Pediatrics 75 (5), 807-812, 1985 | 2348 | 1985 |
| Cardiovascular risk factors and excess adiposity among overweight children and adolescents: the Bogalusa Heart Study DS Freedman, Z Mei, SR Srinivasan, GS Berenson, WH Dietz The Journal of pediatrics 150 (1), 12-17. e2, 2007 | 2285 | 2007 |
