1 Is obesity associated with depression in children? Systematic review and meta-analysis Dr. Shailen Sutaria Public Health Registrar (1) (SS) Dr. Delan Devakumar Clinical Lecturer in Public Health (2) (DD) Dr. Sílvia Shikanai Yasuda Psychiatry Registrar (3) (SSY) Dr. Shikta Das Consultant Statistician (4) (SD) Professor Sonia Saxena Professor of Primary Care (1) (SSax) (1) Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London (2) Institute for Global Health, University College London (3) Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust (4) Institute of Child Health, University College London Address for correspondence: Dr Shailen Sutaria Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, 3rd Floor Reynolds Building, St Dunstan’s Road, London W6 8RP, UK. E-mail: shailen000@yahoo.co.uk SS is guarantor and corresponding author. SS affirms that the manuscript is an honest, accurate, and transparent account of the study being reported; that no important aspects of the study have been omitted; and that any discrepancies from the study as planned have been explained. No funding sources. The Corresponding Author has the right to grant on behalf of all authors and does grant on behalf of all authors, an exclusive license (or non exclusive for government employees) on a worldwide basis to the BMJ Publishing Group Ltd ("BMJ"), and its Licensees to permit this article (if accepted) to be published in The BMJ's editions and any other BMJ products and to exploit all subsidiary rights, as set out in our licence. We have read and understood the BMJ Group policy on declaration of interests and declare the following interests: None