title: PURLS: How best to help kids lose weight.
abstract: Screen children and adolescents for obesity and offer them multifaceted weight loss interventions, based on new evidence (and a recent US Preventive Services Task Force [USPSTF] recommendation) of their effectiveness. Consider adding a weight loss medication as further help for adolescents.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine, University of North Carolina, NC, USA.
authors.forename: Kathleen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Barnhouse
authors.forename: Adam J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Zolotor
authors.forename: Debra
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Stulberg