關于臨床、人口健康和實驗室調查的原始文章，以及在與兒童和青少年肥胖廣泛領域相關的所有領域的人類和動物研究的觀察，包括其從新生兒期到青年成年期的關鍵發(fā)展時期。請注意，以下文章將不會被認為是兒童肥胖的優(yōu)先發(fā)表:簡單的流行病學研究涉及一個國家在一個時間點。重復先前發(fā)表論文的研究結果肥胖與特定基因型或多態(tài)性之間缺乏聯(lián)系的研究簡單描述肥胖人體測量指標與共病基本血漿標志物之間關系的研究沒有對照組和/或非隨機化的干預研究

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 paperStudies that report the absence of links between obesity and a specific genotype or polymorphismStudies that simply describe associations between anthropometric indices of obesity and basic plasma markers of co-morbiditiesIntervention studies that do not have a control group and/or are not randomized