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Assessment of Child Anthropometry in a Large Epidemiologic Study
Published on: February 2, 2017
Primary ambulatory care of overweight children
Gary A Emmett1, Sarah Czarkowski, Alexis S Lieberman
1Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, 833 Chestnut East, Philadelphia, PA 19107-4414, USA. gemmett@nemours.org
Abstract:
Pediatric practitioners are getting closer to an evidence-based consensus on the diagnosis of obesity and on its sequelae through a structured best-practices approach, as outlined above, but much more research into actual treatment is needed. The long-term solution to overweight in childhood probably lies in a society-wide intervention, but what will be successful is not yet known. Currently, we are restricted to evidence-based treatment of the comorbidities, but we do not yet know how to treat weight successfully.
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