Associations between breakfast frequency and adiposity indicators in children from 12 countries
Reports of inverse associations between breakfast frequency and indices of obesity are predominantly based on samples of children from high-income …
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Association between home and school food environments and dietary patterns among 9–11-year-old children in 12 countries
We investigated the roles of home and school environments on dietary patterns among children from 12 countries differing widely in geographic regio…
Reliability of accelerometer-determined physical activity and sedentary behavior in school-aged children: a 12-country study
Focused on the accelerometer-determined physical activity and sedentary time metrics in 9–11-year-old children, we sought to determine the follow…
Nocturnal sleep-related variables from 24-h free-living waist-worn accelerometry: International Study of Childhood Obesity, Lifestyle and the Environment
We describe the process of identifying and defining nocturnal sleep-related variables (for example, movement/non-movement indicators of sleep effic…
Association between body mass index and body fat in 9–11-year-old children from countries spanning a range of human development
The purpose was to assess associations between body mass index (BMI) and body fat in a multinational sample of 9–11-year-old children. The sample…
Unique contributions of ISCOLE to the advancement of accelerometry in large studies
Accelerometry has become a mainstay approach for objectively monitoring children’s physical activity and sedentary time in epidemiological studie…
An international comparison of dietary patterns in 9–11-year-old children
Dietary pattern is defined as a combination of foods and drinks and the frequency of consumption within a population. Dietary patterns are changing…
The epidemiological transition and the global childhood obesity epidemic
Childhood obesity is now recognized as a global public health issue. Social patterning of obesity, consistent with the theory of epidemiologic tran…
Does gastric bypass surgery change body weight set point?
The relatively stable body weight during adulthood is attributed to a homeostatic regulatory mechanism residing in the brain which uses feedback fr…