Childhood Obesity: Today and Tomorrow’s Health Challenge

Publishing date

31 May 2013

Status

Published

Submission deadline

11 Jan 2013

Guest Editors

¹Pediatrics Department, Faculty of Medicine & Child Growth and Development Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran

²Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA,USA

³Department of Health Education and Nutrition Education, Faculty of Education and Social Work, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

⁴Department of Pediatric Laboratory Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁵Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Knowledge Utilization Research Center (KURC), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

⁶International Centre for Circulatory Health, Imperial College London, London, UK

Childhood Obesity: Today and Tomorrow’s Health Challenge

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Childhood obesity is becoming an emerging health problem at individual and public health level. The problem is no more limited to high-income countries and is rapidly growing in low- and middle-income countries. Its early- and late-onset complications warrant studying more about this important issue.

We invite authors to submit original research and review articles that seek to define the determinants as well as prevention and treatment of childhood obesity and its various complications. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

Recent developments on the etiology of childhood obesity and metabolic syndrome
Recent reports on determinants of overweight/obesity in the pediatric-age group in different countries
Action-oriented preventive measures against excess weight in children
Translational research in childhood obesity prevention and management
Reports on short-term complications of childhood obesity
Reports on long-term complications of childhood obesity
Updates in nonpharmacological treatment of childhood obesity and metabolic syndrome
Pharmacologic treatment for childhood obesity and metabolic syndrome

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jobes/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/jobes/chobs/ according to the following timetable: