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Angelo Pietrobelli
Researcher at University of Verona
Publications - 286
Citations - 18886
Angelo Pietrobelli is an academic researcher from University of Verona. The author has contributed to research in topics: Body mass index & Childhood obesity. The author has an hindex of 61, co-authored 265 publications receiving 17213 citations. Previous affiliations of Angelo Pietrobelli include University of Pennsylvania & Mount Sinai St. Luke's and Mount Sinai Roosevelt.
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Waist circumference percentiles in nationally representative samples of African-American, European-American, and Mexican-American children and adolescents.
TL;DR: Age-, sex-, and ethnicity-specific WC percentiles are available for US children and adolescents and can be used as an assessment tool that could impact public health recommendations and suggest concern with respect to high WC values among certain ethnic groups.
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Body mass index as a measure of adiposity among children and adolescents: A validation study
Angelo Pietrobelli,Myles S. Faith,David B. Allison,Dympna Gallagher,Giuseppe Chiumello,Steven B. Heymsfield +5 more
TL;DR: The results support the use of BMI as a fatness measure in groups of children and adolescents, although interpretation should be cautious when comparing BMI across groups that differ in age or when predicting a specific individual's TBF or PBF.
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Validity of body mass index compared with other body-composition screening indexes for the assessment of body fatness in children and adolescents
Zuguo Mei,Laurence M. Grummer-Strawn,Angelo Pietrobelli,Ailsa Goulding,Michael I. Goran,William H. Dietz +5 more
TL;DR: For children and adolescents aged 2-19 y, the performance of BMI-for-age is better than that of RI- for-age in predicting underweight and overweight but is similar to that of weight-For-height.
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Effects of COVID-19 Lockdown on Lifestyle Behaviors in Children with Obesity Living in Verona, Italy: A Longitudinal Study.
Angelo Pietrobelli,Luca Pecoraro,Alessandro Ferruzzi,Moonseong Heo,Myles S. Faith,Thomas Zoller,Franco Antoniazzi,Giorgio Piacentini,S. Nicole Fearnbach,Steven B. Heymsfield +9 more
TL;DR: The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that youths with obesity, when removed from structured school activities and confined to their homes during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic will display unfavorable trends in lifestyle behaviors.
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Ten Putative Contributors to the Obesity Epidemic
Emily J. McAllister,Nikhil V. Dhurandhar,Scott W. Keith,Louis J. Aronne,Jamie L. Barger,Monica L. Baskin,Ruth M. Benca,Joseph R. Biggio,Mary M. Boggiano,J C Eisenmann,Mai A. Elobeid,Kevin R. Fontaine,Peter D. Gluckman,Erin C. Hanlon,Peter T. Katzmarzyk,Angelo Pietrobelli,David T. Redden,Douglas M. Ruden,Chenxi Wang,Robert A. Waterland,Suzanne M. Wright,David B. Allison +21 more
TL;DR: Evidence for microorganisms, epigenetics, increasing maternal age, greater fecundity among people with higher adiposity, assortative mating, sleep debt, endocrine disruptors, pharmaceutical iatrogenesis, reduction in variability of ambient temperatures, and intrauterine and intergenerational effects as contributing factors to the obesity epidemic are reviewed.