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David S. Freedman is affiliated with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on health-related topics with an emphasis on obesity, physical activity, and diet.

Their work spans various fields, including medicine and health professions, with key subfields such as public health, environmental and occupational health, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, pharmacy, general health professions, and physiology.

Freedman has contributed extensively to research on obesity and health practices, birth and development, nutritional studies and diet, bariatric surgery outcomes, body composition measurement techniques, and health and lifestyle studies.

Freedman's frequent co-authors include Lyudmyla Kompaniyets, Alyson B. Goodman, Heidi M. Blanck, Cynthia L. Ogden, and Samantha J. Lange. These collaborations have contributed to a wide range of publications across prominent journals and venues.

Common publication venues for Freedman's research include:

  • PEDIATRICS
  • Obesity
  • Childhood Obesity
  • MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
  • The Journal of Pediatrics

Among Freedman's recent papers are:

  • Trends in Obesity Prevalence by Race and Hispanic Origin-1999-2000 to 2017-2018, 2020, JAMA
  • Body Mass Index and Risk for COVID-19-Related Hospitalization, Intensive Care Unit Admission, Invasive Mechanical Ventilation, and Death - United States, March-December 2020, 2021, MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
  • Longitudinal Trends in Body Mass Index Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Persons Aged 2-19 Years - United States, 2018-2020, 2021, MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
  • A method for calculating BMI z-scores and percentiles above the 95th percentile of the CDC growth charts, 2020, Annals of Human Biology
  • Probability of 5% or Greater Weight Loss or BMI Reduction to Healthy Weight Among Adults With Overweight or Obesity, 2023, JAMA Network Open

The researcher's publications often address critical topics related to obesity trends, body mass index (BMI) metrics, and the intersection of obesity with COVID-19 outcomes. Their work includes statistical methodologies pertinent to BMI calculations as well as epidemiological studies tracking obesity prevalence across different populations.

Best Publications

  • The Relation of Overweight to Cardiovascular Risk Factors Among Children and Adolescents: The Bogalusa Heart Study

    David S. Freedman;William H. Dietz;Sathanur R. Srinivasan;Gerald S. Berenson

  • Do Obese Children Become Obese Adults? A Review of the Literature

    M.K. Serdula;D. Ivery;R.J. Coates;D.S. Freedman

  • Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Excess Adiposity Among Overweight Children and Adolescents: The Bogalusa Heart Study

    David S. Freedman;Zuguo Mei;Sathanur R. Srinivasan;Gerald S. Berenson

  • Relationship of Childhood Obesity to Coronary Heart Disease Risk Factors in Adulthood: The Bogalusa Heart Study

    David S. Freedman;Laura Kettel Khan;William H Dietz;Sathanur R. Srinivasan

  • Trends in Obesity and Severe Obesity Prevalence in US Youth and Adults by Sex and Age, 2007-2008 to 2015-2016

    Craig M. Hales;Cheryl D. Fryar;Margaret D. Carroll;David S. Freedman

  • The relation of childhood BMI to adult adiposity: the Bogalusa Heart Study.

    David S. Freedman;Laura Kettel Khan;Mary K. Serdula;William H. Dietz

  • Relation of serum lipoprotein levels and systolic blood pressure to early atherosclerosis: the Bogalusa heart study

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  • Relation of circumferences and skinfold thicknesses to lipid and insulin concentrations in children and adolescents: the Bogalusa Heart Study

    David S Freedman;Mary K Serdula;Sathanur R Srinivasan;Gerald S Berenson

  • Relation of Serum Uric Acid to Mortality and Ischemic Heart Disease The NHANES I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study

    David S. Freedman;David F. Williamson;Elaine W. Gunter;Tim Byers

  • Low-Density Lipoprotein and High-Density Lipoprotein Particle Subclasses Predict Coronary Events and Are Favorably Changed by Gemfibrozil Therapy in the Veterans Affairs High-Density Lipoprotein Intervention Trial

    James D. Otvos;Dorothea Collins;David S. Freedman;Irina Shalaurova

  • The validity of BMI as an indicator of body fatness and risk among children.

    David S. Freedman;Bettylou Sherry

  • Relation of BMI to fat and fat-free mass among children and adolescents

    D S Freedman;J Wang;L M Maynard;J C Thornton

  • Trends and Correlates of Class 3 Obesity in the United States From 1990 Through 2000

    David S. Freedman;Laura Kettel Khan;Mary K. Serdula;Deborah A. Galuska

  • Morbid Obesity as a Risk Factor for Hospitalization and Death Due to 2009 Pandemic Influenza A(H1N1) Disease

    Oliver W Morgan;Anna Bramley;Ashley L. Fowlkes;David S. Freedman

  • Trends in Obesity Prevalence by Race and Hispanic Origin-1999-2000 to 2017-2018

    Cynthia L. Ogden;Cheryl D. Fryar;Crescent B. Martin;David S. Freedman

  • Health risks of obesity.

    Ahmed H. Kissebah;David S. Freedman;Alan N. Peiris

  • Secular Increases in Relative Weight and Adiposity Among Children Over Two Decades: The Bogalusa Heart Study

    David S. Freedman;Sathanur R. Srinivasan;Rodolfo A. Valdez;David F. Williamson

  • Racial and Ethnic Differences in Secular Trends for Childhood BMI, Weight, and Height

    David S. Freedman;Laura Kettel Khan;Mary K. Serdula;Cynthia L. Ogden

  • Characterizing extreme values of body mass index–for-age by using the 2000 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention growth charts

    Katherine M Flegal;Rong Wei;Cynthia L Ogden;David S Freedman

  • Relation of Lipoprotein Subclasses as Measured by Proton Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy to Coronary Artery Disease

    David S. Freedman;James D. Otvos;Elias J. Jeyarajah;Joseph J. Barboriak

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerald S. Berenson
Gerald S. Berenson Tulane University
Sathanur R. Srinivasan
Sathanur R. Srinivasan Tulane University
William H. Dietz
William H. Dietz George Washington University
Cynthia L. Ogden
Cynthia L. Ogden Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Larry S. Webber
Larry S. Webber Tulane University
Mary K. Serdula
Mary K. Serdula Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
James D. Otvos
James D. Otvos North Carolina State University
Jack Wang
Jack Wang Columbia University
Steven J. Jacobsen
Steven J. Jacobsen Kaiser Permanente
Katherine M. Flegal
Katherine M. Flegal Stanford University

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