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Obesity, Childhood: early-phase trial registry

25 of 54 indexed Obesity, Childhood trials are currently recruiting, with more weight in Phase 1-2.

Corpus placement: #261 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count.

54 US clinical trials · 25 currently recruiting · #261 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count

Obesity, Childhood: 54 US clinical trials tracked, 25 recruiting.

Obesity, Childhood is the subject of 54 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 25 of them currently open to new participants. 0 are in Phase 3-4 (later-stage) and 7 in Phase 1-2 (earlier-stage). The most active sponsor is University of Minnesota, running 3 of these trials.

Enrollment posture brief

Registry condition obesity-childhood

OPEN 25 | RECR 46% | LATE 0 | EARLY 7 | RANK #261 | SPON 3

Nearest open-share peer: Geographic Atrophy (46% recruiting · 28 trials)

Cirrhosis53.7%Colorectal Carcinoma51.9%Obesity, Childhood (this)46%Melanoma13%Brain and Central Nervous Sy1.8%
Open-enrollment share among volume-matched conditions near Obesity, Childhood

Obesity, Childhood lists 25 open slots (46% of 54 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 Obesity, Childhood 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. Obesity, Childhood is recruiting above its size-band peers.

    25 of 54 indexed trials (46.3%) are open to enrollment, against a 39.7% average across 762 conditions with 20-99 trials. The peer set uses the same ClinicalTrials.gov-derived counts as this page.

  2. Sponsorship of Obesity, Childhood trials is spread across many organizations.

    University of Minnesota accounts for 3 of 54 trials (5.6%). 39 distinct sponsors appear on at least one study for this condition label.

  3. Typical Obesity, Childhood enrolment sits around 155 participants.

    Median target enrolment is 155 among the 54 trials that report a genuine target (sentinel values excluded). 18 of those (33.3%) plan for fewer than 100 participants.

  4. Obesity, Childhood research is mostly interventional.

    45 interventional and 9 observational studies make up this index (83.3% interventional). Study type is sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov.

Phase 13Phase 24

Phase Distribution

PhaseTrial count
Phase 1 3
Phase 2 4

Named interventions

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

Low sugar and carbohydrate diet Behavioral
1 trials
MATADORS Control Behavioral
1 trials
MATADORS Behavioral
1 trials
Nutrition program with online parental feeding content Behavioral
1 trials
Nutrition program with in-person parental feeding content Behavioral
1 trials
protein-sparing modified fast diet Other
1 trials
Omega-3 Breakfast Beverage Dietary supplement
1 trials
Control Breakfast Beverage Dietary supplement
1 trials

US sites by state

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

Pennsylvania 8 trials
California 6 trials
New York 5 trials
Minnesota 5 trials
Texas 4 trials
South Carolina 3 trials
North Carolina 3 trials
Missouri 3 trials

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

What to do with this Obesity, Childhood page

54 registered trials, 25 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 Obesity, Childhood condition card totals 54 registered trials; most-linked intervention Low sugar and carbohydrate diet; top US site state Pennsylvania. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data error.