Childhood Obesity for Pediatric Gastroenterologists
Year: 2012
Type: review
Abstract: Obesity in childhood is one of the major health issues in pediatric health care today. As expected, the prevalence of obesity-related comorbidities has risen in parallel with that of obesity. Consultation regarding these concomitant diseases and subsequent management by subspecialists, including pediatric gastroenterologists, is now common and has resulted in obesity being recognized as a chronic disease requiring coordination of care. Although medications and even surgery may provide effective, though often temporary, treatments for obesity and its comorbidities, behavioral interventions addressing healthy dietary and physical activity habits remain a mainstay in the obesity treatment paradigm. Therefore, the issue of weight management must be addressed by both general practitioner and subspecialist alike. In this report, we review select aspects of pediatric obesity and obesity-related management issues because it relates in particular to the field of pediatric gastroenterology and hepatology.
Authors: Jeannie S. Huang, Sarah E. Barlow, Ruben E. Quiros‐Tejeira, Ann Scheimann, Joseph Skelton, David Suskind, Patrika Tsai, Victor Uko, Joshua P. Warolin, Stavra A. Xanthakos, NASPGHAN Obesity Task Force
Institutions: University of California San Diego, Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego, Baylor College of Medicine, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Children's Hospital & Medical Center, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Wake Forest University, University of Washington, University of California, San Francisco, University of California San Francisco Medical Center, Cleveland Clinic, Vanderbilt University, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funders: North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
OpenAlex ID: W1968954511