Publications

2014

Cai L, Wu Y, Wilson RF, Segal JB, Kim MT, Wang Y. (2014). Effect of childhood obesity prevention programs on blood pressure: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Circulation, doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.113.005666.

Chen H-J, Wang Y. (2014). The changing food outlet distributions and local contextual factors in the United States. BMC Public Health, 14(1), 42.

Ip EH, Chen S-H, Rejeski JW. (2014). System-subsystem dependency network for integrating multi-component data and application to health sciences. (135-143). Maryland: In Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction (SBP).  

Rtveladze K, Marsh T, Barquera S, Sanchez Romero LM, Levy D, Melendez G, Webber L, Kilpi F, McPherson K, Brown M. (2014). Obesity prevalence in Mexico: impact on health and economic burden. Public Health Nutrition, 17(1), 1-7.

Tuan NT, Wang Y. (2014). Adiposity assessments: agreement between dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry and anthropometric measures in U.S. children. Obesity, doi: 10.1002/oby.20689.

2013

Bierl M, Marsh T, Webber L, Brown M, McPherson K, Rtveladze K. (2013). Apples and oranges: a comparison of costing methods for obesity. Obesity Reviews, doi: 10.1111/obr.12044.

Bleich SN, Segal J, Wu Y, Wilson R, Wang Y. (2013). Systematic review of community-based childhood obesity prevention studies. Pediatrics, 132(1), e201-e210.

Chen H-J, Wang Y. (2013). Influence of school beverage environment on the association of beverage consumption with physical education participation among U.S. adolescents. American Journal of Public Health, 103(11), e63-e70.

Fallah‐Fini S, Rahmandad H, Chen HJ, Xue H, Wang Y. (2013). Connecting micro-dynamics and population distributions in system dynamics models. System Dynamics Review, 29(4), 197-215.

Ip EH, Rahmandad H, Shoham DA, Hammond R, Huang TT, Wang Y, Mabry PL. (2013). Reconciling statistical and systems science approaches to public health. Health Education Behavior, 40(1 Suppl),123S-131S. doi: 10.1177/1090198113493911.

Ip EH, Zhang Q, Lu J, Mabry PL, Dube L. (2013). Feedback dynamic between emotional reinforcement and healthy eating: an application of the reciprocal Markov model. (135-143). Maryland: In Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction (SBP).

Ip EH, Zhang Q, Schwarz R, Tooze J, Leng X, Hong M, Williamson, D. (2013). Multi-profile hidden Markov model for mood, dietary intake, and physical activity in an intervention study of childhood obesity. Statistics in Medicine, 32, 2213-41. PMCID: PMC3710544.

Kilpi F, Webber L, Musaigner A, Aitsi Selma A, Marsh T, Rtveladze K, McPherson K, Brown M. Alarming predictions for obesity and non-communicable disease in the Middle East. Public Health Nutrition, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1368980013000840

Levi J, Segal LM, Miller AF, Lang A. (2013). A healthier America 2013: Strategies to move from sick care to health care in the next four years. Trust for America’s Health. http://healthyamericans.org/assets/files/TFAH2013HealthierAmerica07.pdf

Liu Y, Chen H-J, Liang L, Wang Y. (2013). Parent-child resemblance in weight status and its correlates in the United States. PLOS ONE. 8(6), e65361.

Namba A, Auchincloss A, Leonberg BL, Wootan MG. (2013). Exploratory analysis of fast-food chain restaurant menus before and after implementation of local calorie-labeling policies, 2005-2011. Preventing Chronic Disease, doi: 10.5888/pcd10.120224.

Rendall MS, Ghosh-Dastidar B, Weden MM, Baker EH, Nazarov Z. (2013). Multiple imputation for combined-survey estimation with incomplete regressors in one but not both surveys. Sociological Methods and Research, 42(4), 483-530.

Rtveladze K, Marsh T, Conde W, Levy D, Webber L, Kilpi F, McPherson K, Brown M. (2013). Obesity prevalence in Brazil: impact on health and economic burden. PLOS ONE.http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0068785

Sabounchi N, Rahmandad H, Ammerman A. (2013). Best-fitting prediction equations for basal metabolic rate: informing obesity interventions in diverse populations. International Journal of Obesity, 37(10), 1364-70.

Showell NN, Fawole O, Segal J, Wilson RF, Cheskin LJ, Bleich SN, Wu Y, Lau B, Wang Y. (2013). A systematic review of home-based childhood obesity prevention studies. Pediatrics, 132(1), e193-e200.

Weden MM, Brownell P, Rendall MS, Lau C, Fernandes M, Nazarov Z. (2013). Parent-reported height and weight as sources of bias in survey estimates of childhood obesity. American Journal of Epidemiology, 178(3), 461-473.

2012

Chen X, Wang Y. (2012). Is ideal body image related to obesity and lifestyle behaviours in African American adolescents? Child: Care, Health and Development, 38(2), 219-228.

Eisenberg M, Wall MM, Shim J, Bruening M, Loth K, Neumark-Sztainer D. (2012). Associations between friends’ disordered eating and muscle-enhancing behaviors. Social Science and Medicine, 75(12), 2242-2249.

Forsyth A, Wall MM, Larson N, Story M, Neumark-Sztainer D. (2012). Do adolescents who live or go to school near fast-food restaurants eat more frequently from fast-food restaurants? Health & Place. 18(6), 1261-1269.

Forsyth A, Van Riper D, Larson N, Wall MM, Neumark-Sztainer D. (2012). Creating a replicable, valid cross-platform buffering technique: the sausage network buffer for measuring food and physical activity built environments. International Journal of Health Geographics, 11(14), 1-17.

Hollingworth W, Hawkins J, Lawlor DA, Brown M, Marsh T, Kipping RR. (2012). Economic evaluation of lifestyle interventions to treat overweight or obesity in children. International Journal of Obesity, 36(4), 559-566.

Ip EH, Zhang Q, Williamson D. (2012). Dynamic multi-chain graphical model for psychosocial and behavioral profiles in childhood obesity. (180-187). Maryland: In Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction (SBP).

Levi J, Segal LM, St. Laurent R, Lang A, Rayburn J. (2012). F as in fat: how obesity threatens America’s future. Trust for America’s Health. http://www.healthyamericans.org/assets/files/TFAH2012FasInFatFnlRv.pdf  

Neumark-Sztainer D, Wall MM, Larson N, Story M, Fulkerson J, Eisenberg. (2012). Secular trends in weight status and weight-related attitudes and behaviors in adolescents from 1999 to 2010. Preventive Medicine, 54(1), 77-81.

Rahmandad H, Sabounchi N. (2012). Modeling and estimating individual and population obesity dynamics. Social Computing, Behavioral - Cultural Modeling and Prediction. 7227, 306-313.

Rendall MS, Weden MM, Fernandes M, Vaynman I. (2012). Hispanic and black children’s paths to higher adolescent obesity prevalence Pediatric Obesity, 7, 423-435.

Rtveladze K, Marsh T, Webber L, Kilpi K, Goryakin Y, Kontsevaya A, Starodubova A, McPherson K, Brown M. (2012). Obesity trends in Russia: the impact on health and healthcare costs. Health, 4(12A), 1471-1484.

Shoham DA, Tong L, Lamberson PJ, Auchincloss AH, Zhang J, Dugas L, Kaufman JS, Cooper RS, Luke A. (2012). An actor-based model of social network influence on adolescent body size, screen time, and playing sports. PLOS ONE, 7(6), e39795. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039795.

Tuan NT, Butte NF, Wang Y. (2012). Demographic and socioeconomic correlates of adiposity assessed with dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry in U.S. children and adolescents. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 96(5), 1104-1112.

Wall MM, Guo J, Amemiya Y. (2012). Mixture factor analysis for approximating non-normally distributed continuous latent factor with continuous and dichotomous observed variables. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 47(2), 276-313.

Wall MM, Larson N, Forsyth A, Van Riper D, Graham D, Story M, Neumark-Sztainer D. (2012). Patterns of obesogenic neighborhood features and adolescent weight: a comparison of statistical approaches. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 42(5), 65-75.

Wang Y, Coxson P, Shen YM, Goldman L, Bibbins-Domingo K. (2012). A penny-per-ounce tax on sugar-sweetened beverages would cut health and cost burdens of diabetes. Health Affairs, 31(1), 199-207.

Wang Y. Orleans T, Gortmaker SL. (2012). Reaching the healthy people goals for reducing childhood obesity: closing the energy gap. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 42(5), 437-444.

Webber L, Kilpi F, Marsh T, Rtveladze K, Brown M, McPherson K. (2012). High rates of obesity and non-communicable diseases predicted across Latin America. PLOS ONE, 7(8), 1-6.

Webber L, Kilpi F, Marsh T, Rtveladze K, McPherson K, Brown M. (2012). Modelling obesity trends and related diseases in Eastern Europe. Obesity Reviews, 13(8), 744-51.

Weden MM, Brownell P, Rendall MS. (2012). Prenatal, perinatal, early-life, and sociodemographic factors underlying racial differences in the likelihood of high body mass index in early childhood. American Journal of Public Health, 102(11), 2057-2067.

2011

Dietz W. (2011). Reversing the tide of obesity. The Lancet, 378(9793) 744-746.

Gortmaker SL, Swinburn B, Levy D, Carter R, Mabry PL, Finegood D, Huang TK, Marsh T, Moodie M. (2011). Changing the future of Obesity: science, policy and action. The Lancet, 378(9793), 838 – 47.

Hall KD, Sacks G, Chandramohan D, et al. (2011). Quantification of the effect of energy imbalance on bodyweight. The Lancet, 378(9793), 826-837.

King D. (2011). The future challenge of obesity. The Lancet, 378(9793), 743-744.

Levy DT, Mabry PL, Wang YC, Gortmaker SL, Huang TK, Marsh T, Moodie M, Swinburn B. (2011). Simulation models of obesity: a review of the literature and implications for research and policy. Obesity Reviews, 12(5), 378-94.

Lin B, Smith TA, Lee J, Hall KD. (2011). Measuring weight outcomes for obesity intervention strategies: the case of a sugar-sweetened beverage tax. Economics and Human Biology, 9(4), 329-341.

Mabry PL, Hammond R, Huang TK, Ip EH. (2011). Computational and statistical models: a comparison for policy modeling of childhood obesity. (87). Maryland: In Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction (SBP).

Rutter H. (2011). Where next for obesity? The Lancet, 378(9793), 746-747.

Swinburn B, Sacks G, Hall KD, McPherson K, Finegood D, Moodie M, Gortmaker SL. (2011). The global obesity pandemic: shaped by global drivers and local environments. The Lancet, 378(9793), 804-14.

Wang Y. (2011). Disparities in pediatric obesity in the United States. Advances in Nutrition: An International Review Journal, 2(1), 23-31.

Wang YC, McPherson K, Marsh T, Gortmaker SL, Brown M. (2011). Health and economic burden of the projected obesity trends in the USA and the UK. The Lancet, 378(9793), 815-825.

2010

Brown M, Byatt T, Marsh T, McPherson K. (2010). A prediction of obesity trends for adults and their associated diseases. Analysis from the Health Survey for England 1993-2007. National Heart Forum. http://nhfshare.heartforum.org.uk/RMAssets/NHFreports/NHF_adultobese_short_170210.pdf

Brown M, Byatt T, Marsh T, McPherson K. (2010). Obesity trends for adults. Analysis from the Health Survey for England, 1993-2007. National Heart Forum. http://nhfshare.heartforum.org.uk/RMAssets/NHFreports/NHF_adultobese_long_170210.pdf

Chow C, Hall KD. (2010). Estimating the quantitative relation between food energy intake and changes in body weight. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 91(3), 816.

Zhang Q, Snow Jones A, Rijmen F, Ip EH. (2010). Multivariate discrete hidden Markov models for domain-based measurements and assessment of risk factors in child development. Journal of Graphical and Computational Statistics. 19, 746–765. doi: 10.1198/jcgs.2010.09015.

2009 or older

Butland B, Jebb S, Kopelman P, McPherson K, Thomas S, Mardell J, Parry V. (2007). Tackling obesities: future choices. In Foresight, 2nd Ed. London, England: Government Office for Science. http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/foresight/docs/obesity/14.pdf

Hall KD, Guo J, Dore M, Chow C. (2009). The progressive increase of food waste in America and its environmental impact. PLOS ONE, 4(11), 7940.

McPherson K, Brown M, Marsh T, Byatt T. (2009). Obesity: recent trends in children – aged 2-11y and 12-19y. Analysis from the Health Survey for England 1993-2007. National Heart Forum. http://nhfshare.heartforum.org.uk/RMAssets/NHFreports/Child_Obesity_short_Oct_09.pdf  

McPherson K, Marsh T, Brown M. (2007). Tackling obesities: future choices – Modelling Future Trends in Obesity and the Impact on Health. In Foresight, 2nd Ed. (1-76). London, England: Government Office for Science. http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/foresight/docs/obesity/14.pdf