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Adolescent Obesity: full-pipeline trial registry

4 of 13 indexed Adolescent Obesity trials are currently recruiting.

Corpus placement: #1,315 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count.

13 US clinical trials · 4 currently recruiting · #1,315 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count

Adolescent Obesity: 13 US clinical trials tracked, 4 recruiting.

Adolescent Obesity is the subject of 13 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 4 of them currently open to new participants. 2 are in Phase 3-4 (later-stage) and 2 in Phase 1-2 (earlier-stage). The most active sponsor is University of Colorado, Denver, running 3 of these trials.

Enrollment posture brief

Registry condition adolescent-obesity

OPEN 4 | RECR 31% | LATE 2 | EARLY 2 | RANK #1315 | SPON 3

Nearest open-share peer: Acute Decompensated Heart Failure (31% recruiting · 13 trials)

ACL Injury61.5%Acute Biphenotypic Leukemia46.2%Adolescent Obesity (this)31%Accidental Falls30.8%Actinic Keratoses23.1%
Open-enrollment share among volume-matched conditions near Adolescent Obesity

Adolescent Obesity lists 4 open slots (31% of 13 indexed trials). Peers are matched on registered volume, not therapeutic-area browse lists. How peer matching works →

Key findings

What ClinicalTrials.gov does not surface for Adolescent Obesity on its own pages , computed from the registry mirror as of 2026-08-08. Each line carries its own denominator so it can be quoted as it stands.

  1. Adolescent Obesity is recruiting below its size-band peers.

    4 of 13 indexed trials (30.8%) are open to enrollment, against a 46.5% average across 27,806 conditions with fewer than 20 trials. The peer set uses the same ClinicalTrials.gov-derived counts as this page.

  2. One sponsor concentrates Adolescent Obesity research.

    University of Colorado, Denver accounts for 3 of 13 trials (23.1%). 11 distinct sponsors appear on at least one study for this condition label.

  3. Most Adolescent Obesity trials plan to enrol fewer than 100 people.

    Median target enrolment is 60 among the 13 trials that report a genuine target (sentinel values excluded). 10 of those (76.9%) plan for fewer than 100 participants.

  4. Adolescent Obesity research is mostly interventional.

    11 interventional and 2 observational studies make up this index (84.6% interventional). Study type is sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov.

Phase 11Phase 21Phase 32

Open and recent trials

13 total, page 1 of 1

RECRUITING 100 participants

Puberty, Diabetes, and the Kidneys, When Eustress Becomes Distress (PANTHER Study)

Petter Bjornstad

NCT05008276

RECRUITING NA 99 participants

Self-Weighing for Adolescents Seeking Obesity Treatment

University of Minnesota

NCT04837586

RECRUITING Phase 3 55 participants

Effect of Amino Acids on Hepatic Fat Content in Adolescents (AMINOS Study)

University of Colorado, Denver

NCT05935826

RECRUITING Phase 1 40 participants

Physiologic Response to Bariatric Surgery and the Impact of Adjunct Semaglutide in Adolescents

University of Colorado, Denver

NCT06575738

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING NA 172 participants

Teen Weight Control

The Miriam Hospital

NCT04861636

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING NA 120 participants

Black Girls Move Physical Activity and Improving Dietary Intake Among Black Adolescent Daughters

Rush University Medical Center

NCT05433415

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING NA 50 participants

Improving Sleep, Decision-Making, and Eating in Adolescents with Obesity

Drexel University

NCT06745570

COMPLETED NA 86 participants

Helping Educate and Advance Learning Through Healthy Bite-Sized Eating Strategies

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

NCT06082830

COMPLETED NA 80 participants

The Role of High Intensity Interval Training in the Treatment of Adolescent Obesity

Virginia Commonwealth University

NCT03361644

COMPLETED Phase 2 60 participants

Treating PCOS With Semaglutide vs Active Lifestyle Intervention

University of Colorado, Denver

NCT03919929

COMPLETED 36 participants

The Development of an Eating Laboratory for Overweight Adolescents

New York State Psychiatric Institute

NCT00764127

COMPLETED Phase 3 21 participants

Effect of Mindful Eating on Body Mass Index in Obese Adolescents

Mayo Clinic

NCT01764113

COMPLETED NA 2 participants

TRUST Study of Adolescent Weight Self-Management

University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

NCT03016247

Phase Distribution

PhaseTrial count
Phase 1 1
Phase 2 1
Phase 3 2

Named interventions

Most-linked intervention names on Adolescent Obesity records (sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov). Counts are trial links, not unique products.

Weight loss diet Other
1 trials
Semaglutide 3mg and 7mg [Rybelsus] Drug
1 trials
Standard dietary counselling Behavioral
1 trials
Moderate-Intensity Continuous Training Behavioral
1 trials
TRUST Intervention Behavioral
1 trials
Black Girls Move Behavioral
1 trials
Lifestyle Modification and Sleep Intervention Behavioral
1 trials
SBWC Behavioral
1 trials

US sites by state

Facility locations filed on Adolescent Obesity trials. A trial with sites in several states counts in each.

Colorado 4 trials
Pennsylvania 2 trials
Minnesota 2 trials
Washington 1 trials
Virginia 1 trials
Rhode Island 1 trials
Oregon 1 trials
Ohio 1 trials

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, National Library of Medicine. Data is informational only.

What to do with this Adolescent Obesity page

13 registered trials, 4 currently recruiting, is a starting point for a conversation, not a diagnosis or a recommendation.

Trial and recruiting counts reflect ClinicalTrials.gov registry status as of the data vintage above; individual trial eligibility and enrollment status can change.

Every figure on PlainTrial is rendered directly from the ClinicalTrials.gov registry, no number is typed in by an editor. This Adolescent Obesity condition card totals 13 registered trials; most-linked intervention Weight loss diet; top US site state Colorado. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data error.