Pediatric Obesity

Original Articles which report on clinical, population health and laboratory investigations and observations from both human and animal studies in all areas relevant to the broad area of child and adolescent obesity including its critical periods of development from the neonatal period to young adulthood. Please note that the following papers will not be considered high priority for publication in Pediatric Obesity: Simple prevalence studies involving a single country at a single time-point. Studies that replicate the findings of previously published paper Studies that report the absence of links between obesity and a specific genotype or polymorphism Studies that simply describe associations between anthropometric indices of obesity and basic plasma markers of co-morbidities Intervention studies that do not have a control group and/or are not randomized