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