Advancing Personalized Strategies for Obesity Prevention Through Biologically and Behaviorally Tailored Interventions: The Strategic Framework for the BETTER4U Initiative

Maria Kafyra; Ioanna Panagiota Kalafati; Susanne Bruins; Chrysa Episkopou; Delfien Gryspeerdt; Lisa Heggie; Saskia Kaltenbrunner; Stephan Kampshoff; Eva Karaglani; Hande Özkayagan Prändl; Ioannis Papathanail; Panagiotis G. Symianakis; Darya Silchenko; Vasiliki Vavouraki; Dorret Boomsma; Anastasios Delopoulos; Christos Diou; Anders Eriksson; Jaakko Kaprio; Paulina Krzywicka; Aleksandra Luszczynska; Yannis Manios; Eirini Marouli; Panagiotis Moulos; Stavroula Mougiakakou; René Pool; Karri Silventoinen; Nick Verhaege; Ruben Willems; George V. Dedoussis

doi:10.1111/obr.70083

Advancing Personalized Strategies for Obesity Prevention Through Biologically and Behaviorally Tailored Interventions: The Strategic Framework for the BETTER4U Initiative

Maria Kafyra
, Ioanna Panagiota Kalafati
, Susanne Bruins
, Chrysa Episkopou
, Delfien Gryspeerdt
, Lisa Heggie
, Saskia Kaltenbrunner
, Stephan Kampshoff
, Eva Karaglani
, Hande Özkayagan Prändl
, Ioannis Papathanail
, Panagiotis G. Symianakis
, Darya Silchenko
, Vasiliki Vavouraki
, Dorret Boomsma
, Anastasios Delopoulos
, Christos Diou
, Anders Eriksson
, Jaakko Kaprio
, Paulina Krzywicka

Aleksandra Luszczynska, Yannis Manios, Eirini Marouli, Panagiotis Moulos, Stavroula Mougiakakou, René Pool, Karri Silventoinen, Nick Verhaege, Ruben Willems, George V. Dedoussis

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Original language	English
Article number	e70083
Pages (from-to)	e70083
Journal	Obesity reviews
Volume	27
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.70083 https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.v27.3
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2026

Funding

The BETTER4U project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe Research and Innovation program under Grant Agreement No. 101080117. Additionally, BETTER4U is funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK government's Horizon Europe funding guarantee (grant number 10093560 for QMUL and 10106435 for BiB) and by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).

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Spine Education and Research Institute
Staatssekretariat für Bildung, Forschung und Innovation
UK Research and Innovation
European Union's Horizon Europe Research and Innovation program	101080117
Horizon Europe funding guarantee	10106435, 10093560

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Kafyra, M., Kalafati, IP., Bruins, S., Episkopou, C., Gryspeerdt, D., Heggie, L., Kaltenbrunner, S., Kampshoff, S., Karaglani, E., Prändl, HÖ., Papathanail, I., Symianakis, PG., Silchenko, D., Vavouraki, V., Boomsma, D., Delopoulos, A., Diou, C., Eriksson, A., Kaprio, J., ... Dedoussis, GV. (2026). Advancing Personalized Strategies for Obesity Prevention Through Biologically and Behaviorally Tailored Interventions: The Strategic Framework for the BETTER4U Initiative. Obesity reviews, 27(3), e70083. Article e70083. https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.70083, https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.v27.3

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Advancing Personalized Strategies for Obesity Prevention Through Biologically and Behaviorally Tailored Interventions: The Strategic Framework for the BETTER4U Initiative. / Kafyra, Maria; Kalafati, Ioanna Panagiota; Bruins, Susanne et al.
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