Characterizing Obesity Interventions and Treatment for Children and Youths During 1991-2018.

ABSTRACT: Overweight and obesity have become a serious health problem globally due to its significant role in increased morbidity and mortality. The treatments for this health issue are various such as lifestyle modifications, pharmacological therapies, and surgery. However, little is known about the productivity, workflow, topics, and landscape research of all the papers mentioning the intervention and treatment for children with obesity. A total of 20,925 publications from the Web of Science database mentioning interventions and treatment in reducing the burden of childhood overweight and obesity on physical health, mental health, and society published in the period from 1991 to 2018 were in the analysis. We used Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) for identifying the topics and a dendrogram for res

SUBMITTER: Tran BX 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6863014 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature