title: Primary ambulatory care of overweight children.
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.
authors.affiliation: Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, 833 Chestnut East, Philadelphia, PA 19107-4414, USA. gemmett@nemours.org
authors.forename: Gary A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Emmett
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Czarkowski
authors.forename: Alexis S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Lieberman
mesh_terms: D000553:Ambulatory Care; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity / Q000628:therapy; D050177:Overweight