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The rates of obesity in children and adolescents are rising rapidly in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. We systematically searched the literature to explore adverse effects associated with childhood obesity in this region and the management efforts for dealing with it. Inclusion criteria were: English-language, non-basic-science focused articles that used any of the standard obesity definitions and were conducted in the MENA countries within the last five years. We searched PubMed using combinations of key terms ((childhood) OR adolescence) AND obesity) AND (MENA or each country) AND (\"last five years\" [PDat]). Studies that examined adverse effects of childhood obesity gave fairly consistent results, revealing associations with higher blood pressure, pre-diabetes, metabolic abnormalities, and cardiovascular risk. Little or no overall effect on rates of childhood obesity has yet been demonstrated by interventions used to manage the problem. Obesity has a considerable impact on the health of children and adolescents, and the countries of the MENA region should endorse strategies and programs to prevent and manage this problem in an effective way.","is_dataset_classified":null,"base_score":2.995732273553991,"endowment":2.995732273553991,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"views":0,"has_version_chain":false,"is_dataset":false,"is_oa":false,"pmid":"29104941","pmcid":"PMC5667657","openalex_id":"https://openalex.org/W2945813858","authors":[],"funders":[{"funder_name":"NCATS NIH HHS","grant_id":"UL1 TR001079","title":null},{"funder_name":"National Institutes of Health","grant_id":"3UL1TR001079-02S1","title":"Institute for Clinical and Translational Research"}],"total_grants":2,"fwci":2.3899,"citation_percentile":0.89302948,"influential_citations":0,"citation_trend":[{"year":2017,"count":1},{"year":2019,"count":4},{"year":2020,"count":5},{"year":2021,"count":3},{"year":2022,"count":1},{"year":2023,"count":3},{"year":2025,"count":2}],"oa_status":"green","license":"cc-by","oa_locations":[{"url":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/5667657","host_type":"repository"},{"url":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/5667657","host_type":"repository"},{"url":"https://doi.org/10.12715/apr.2017.4.6","host_type":"journal"},{"url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29104941","host_type":"repository"},{"url":"https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5667657","host_type":"Europe_PMC"},{"url":"https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5667657?pdf=render","host_type":"Europe_PMC"},{"url":"https://europepmc.org/articles/pmc5667657?pdf=render","host_type":""},{"url":"http://dx.doi.org/10.12715/apr.2017.4.6","host_type":""},{"url":"https://dx.doi.org/10.12715/apr.2017.4.6","host_type":""}],"fields_of_study":["Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet","Obesity and Health Practices","Birth, Development, and Health","03 medical and health sciences","0302 clinical medicine"],"mesh_terms":[],"keywords":["Obesity","Childhood obesity","Middle East","Medicine","Psychological intervention","Adolescent Obesity","Environmental health","Management of obesity","Inclusion (mineral)","Pediatrics","Political science","Psychology","Psychiatry","Overweight","Endocrinology","Weight loss","Article"],"sdg_mappings":[{"sdg_number":2,"sdg_label":"2. 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