Publications
Gortmaker SL, Must A, Perrin JM, Sobol AM, and Dietz WH. Social and economic consequences of overweight among adolescents and young adults. New England Journal of Medicine, 1993;329:1008-12.
Gortmaker SL, Must A, Sobol AM, Peterson K, Colditz GA, and Dietz WH. Television viewing as a cause of increasing obesity among children in the United States, 1986-1990. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 1996;150:356-362.
Gortmaker SL and Wise PH. The first injustice: socioeconomic disparities, health services technology and infant mortality. Annual Review of Sociology, 1997;23:147-70.
Gortmaker SL, Peterson K, Wiecha J, Sobol AM, Dixit S, Fox MK, Laird N. Reducing obesity via a school-based interdisciplinary intervention among youth: Planet Health. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. 1999;153:409-18.
Gortmaker SL, Cheung LWY, Peterson KE, Chomitz G, Cradle JH, Dart H, Fox MK, Bullock RB, Sobol AM, Colditz G, Field A, Laird N. Impact of a school-based interdisciplinary intervention on diet and physical activity among urban primary school children: Eat Well and Keep Moving. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. 1999;153:975-83.
Hernandez B, Gortmaker SL, Colditz GA, Peterson KE, Laird NM, Parra-Cabrera S. Association of obesity with physical activity, television programs and other forms of video viewing among children in Mexico City. International Journal of Obesity. 1999;23: 845-54.
Gortmaker SL, Hughes M, Cervia J, Brady M, Johnson G, Seage GR, Song LY, Dankner WM, Oleske JM. The impact of protease inhibitor combination therapy on mortality among children and youth infected with HIV-1. New England Journal of Medicine. 2001:345;1522-8.
Dietz WH, Gortmaker SL. Preventing obesity in children and adolescents. Annual Review of Public Health 2001;22:237-53.
Ludwig DS, Peterson KE, Gortmaker SL. Relation between consumption of sugar-sweetened drinks and childhood obesity: a prospective, observational analysis. The Lancet. 2001;357:505-508.
Bowman SA, Gortmaker SL, Ebbeling CB, Pereira MA, Ludwig DS. Effects of fast-food consumption on energy intake and diet quality among children in a national household survey. Pediatrics. 2004 Jan;113(1 Pt 1):112-8.
Austin SB, Melly SJ, Sanchez BN, Patel A, Buka S, Gortmaker SL. Clustering of fast-food restaurants around schools: a novel application of spatial statistics to the study of food environments. Am J Public Health. 2005 Sep;95(9):1575-81.
Wiecha JL, Peterson KE, Ludwig DS, Kim J, Sobol A, Gortmaker SL. When children eat what they watch: impact of television viewing on dietary intake in youth. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2006 Apr;160(4):436-42.