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Christof Meigen
Researcher at Leipzig University
Publications - 39
Citations - 632
Christof Meigen is an academic researcher from Leipzig University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Population. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 23 publications receiving 356 citations.
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Age-specific stabilization in obesity prevalence in German children: a cross-sectional study from 1999 to 2008
Susann Blüher,Christof Meigen,Ruth Gausche,Eberhard Keller,Roland Pfäffle,Matthew A. Sabin,George A. Werther,Rasha Odeh,Wieland Kiess +8 more
TL;DR: The global trend of stabilizing prevalence rates of childhood obesity at a high level is confirmed and age- and gender-specific differences found in trends of ov/ob prevalence may help optimise preventive and therapeutic measures.
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Secular trends in body mass index in German children and adolescents: a cross-sectional data analysis via CrescNet between 1999 and 2006.
Christof Meigen,A. Keller,Ruth Gausche,Katrin Kromeyer-Hauschild,Susann Blüher,Wieland Kiess,Eberhard Keller +6 more
TL;DR: The cross-sectional study performed at a large cohort of German children and adolescents reveals an alarming increase in the number of obese children and adolescence and an accompanied shift toward higher BMI values.
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Age- and weight group-specific weight gain patterns in children and adolescents during the 15 years before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mandy Vogel,Mandy Geserick,Ruth Gausche,Christoph Beger,Tanja Poulain,Christof Meigen,Antje Körner,Eberhard Keller,Wieland Kiess,Roland Pfäffle +9 more
TL;DR: There are positive dynamics in different measures of weight change, indicating a positive trend in weight gain patterns, especially within the group of obese children.
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Well-being and COVID-19-related worries of German children and adolescents: A longitudinal study from pre-COVID to the end of lockdown in Spring 2020
Mandy Vogel,Christof Meigen,Carolin Sobek,Peggy Ober,Ulrike Igel,Ulrike Igel,Antje Körner,Wieland Kiess,Tanja Poulain +8 more
TL;DR: This study supports the notion that pandemic measures have to be balanced against adverse public health effects and especially vulnerable groups have to been protected.
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Loss of childcare and classroom teaching during the Covid-19-related lockdown in spring 2020: A longitudinal study on consequences on leisure behavior and schoolwork at home.
Tanja Poulain,Christof Meigen,Carolin Sobek,Peggy Ober,Ulrike Igel,Antje Körner,Wieland Kiess,Mandy Vogel +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the leisure behavior of 285 one-to 10-year-old German children at two time points (t1 and t2) during the Covid-19-related lockdown in spring 2020.