Recent publications on Obesity

Cheadle A, Rauzon S, Spring R, Schwartz PM, Gee S, Gonzalez E, Ravel J, Reilly C, Taylor A, Williamson D. Kaiser Permanente's Community Health Initiative in Northern California: evaluation findings and lessons learned. Am J Health Promot. 2012;27(2):e59-68. doi: 10.4278/ajhp.111222-QUAN-462. PubMed

Levine MD, Bush T, Magnusson B, Cheng Y, Chen X. Smoking-related weight concerns and obesity: differences among normal weight, overweight, and obese smokers using a telephone tobacco quitline. Nicotine Tob Res. 2013 Jun;15(6):1136-40. doi: 10.1093/ntr/nts226. Epub 2012 Oct 24. PubMed

Wong ES, Wang BC, Alfonso RC, Flum DR, Sullivan SD, Garrison LP, Arterburn DE. Body mass index trajectories among the severely obese: results from an electronic medical record population. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2012 Oct;20(10):2107-12. doi: 10.1038/oby.2012.29. Epub 2012 Feb 8. PubMed

Fuller S, Ludman E, Mohelnitzky A, Gundersen G, Wellman R, Reid R, Newton K. CC2-01: A telephone-based diabetes prevention program and social support for weight loss: the Call-2-Health study. Clin Med Res. 2012;10(3):143. PubMed

Wood GC, Arterburn D, Westbrook E, Theis K, Boscarino J, Rukstalis M, Still C, Gerhard G. Ca4-05: Electronic health record phenotyping to define rate of extreme weight gain associated with the use of 2nd/3rd generation antipsychotic medications. Clin Med Res. 2012;10(3):185. PubMed

Riggs K, Lozano P, Mohelnitzky A, Richards J, Lorenzo J, Rudnick S. Ps2-25: An adaptation of behavioral pediatric obesity treatment for the real world: results from the Group Health Family Wellness Program pilot trial. Clin Med Res. 2012;10(3):185. PubMed

Westbrook E, Arterburn D, Fuller S, Shea M, Kowalski K, Turnbull E. Ps2-26: Using shared decision making to ensure equipoise in a randomized trial of bariatric surgery versus behavioral treatment for obesity and diabetes. Clin Med Res. 2012;10(3):185-6. PubMed

Maciejewski ML, Livingston EH, Smith VA, Kahwati LC, Henderson WG, Arterburn DE. Health expenditures among high-risk patients after gastric bypass and matched controls.  Arch Surg. 2012;147(7):633-40. PubMed

Arterburn D, Westbrook EO, Ludman EJ, Operskalski B, Linde JA, Rohde P, Jeffery RW, Simon GE. Relationship between obesity, depression, and disability in middle-aged women.  Obes Res Clin Pract. 2012;6(3):e197-e206. Epub 2012 Mar 3. PubMed

Alschuler KN, Gibbons LE, Rosenberg DE, Ehde DM, Verrall Am, Bamer AM, Jensen MP Body mass index and waist circumference in persons aging with muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, post-polio syndrome, and spinal cord injury. Disabil Health J. 2012 Jul;5(3):177-84. Epub 2012 May 2. PubMed

Kumanyika S, Brownson RC, Cheadle A. The L.E.A.D. Framework: using tools from evidence-based public health to address evidence needs for obesity prevention. Prev Chronic Dis. 2012;9:E125. Epub 2012 Jul 12. PubMed

Schur EA, Elmore JG, Onega T, Wernli KJ, Sickles E, Haneuse S. The impact of obesity on follow-up after an abnormal screening mammogram.  Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2012 Feb;21(2):327-36. Epub 2011 Dec 5. PubMed

Wong ES, Wang BC, Garrison LP, Alfonso-Cristancho R, Flum DR, Arterburn DE, Sullivan SD. Examining the BMI-mortality relationship using fractional polynomials.  BMC Med Res Methodol. 2011 Dec 28;11(1):175. PubMed

Patrick K, Calfas KJ, Norman GJ, Rosenberg D, Zabinski MF, Sallis JF, Rock CL, Dillon LW. Outcomes of a 12-month web-based intervention for overweight and obese men. Ann Behav Med. 2011 Dec;42(3):391-401. doi: 10.1007/s12160-011-9296-7. PubMed

Green BB, Estabrooks P. Assessing the scale-up of a weight loss program: narrowing the gap between research and practice. Am J Prev Med. 2011 Nov;41(5):548-9. PubMed

Compston JE, Watts NB, Chapurlat R, Cooper C, Boonen S, Greenspan S, Pfeilschifter J, Silverman S, Diez-Perez A, Lindsay R, Saag KG, Netelenbos JC, Gehlbach S, Hooven FH, Flahive J, Adachi JD, Rossini M, LaCroix AZ, Roux C, Sambrook PN, Siris ES. Obesity is not protective against fracture in postmenopausal women: GLOW. Am J Med. 2011;124(11):1043-50. PubMed

Arterburn D, Rukstalis M, Wood C, Westbrook E, Theis K, Daar Z, Still C, Gerhard G. Identification of extreme weight gain among users of atypical antipsychotic medications. Clin Med Res. 2011;9(3-4):160. PubMed

Simon GE, Arterburn D, Rohde P, Ludman EJ, Linde JA, Operskalski BH, Jeffery RW. Obesity, depression, and health services costs among middle-aged women. J Gen Intern Med. 2011 Nov;26(11):1284-90. Epub 2011 Jun 28. PubMed

Maciejewski ML, Livingston EH, Smith VA, Kavee AL, Kahwati LC, Henderson WG, Arterburn DE. Survival among high-risk patients after bariatric surgery.  JAMA. 2011;305(23):2419-26. Epub 2011 Jun 12. PubMed

Arterburn DE, Westbrook EO, Bogart TA, Sepucha KR, Bock SN, Weppner WG. Randomized trial of a video-based patient decision aid for bariatric surgery.  Obesity (Silver Spring). 2011 Aug;19(8):1669-75. doi: 10.1038/oby.2011.65. Epub 2011 Apr 7. PubMed