[Obesity among children and adolescents].
The ongoing childhood obesity pandemic is a comprehensive health challenge in the 21st century with major implications for mental and physical health and disease with an increased morbidity and mortality resulting in a shortening of expected life span. Obesity should be understood as a chronic disease regulated by a complex neuroendocrine system aiming at fat mass preservation. Multidisciplinary chronic care treatment based on current guidelines, meta-analyses, systematic reviews, and best-practice standards across health sectors are recommended to alleviate and counteract childhood obesity.
jhom@regionsjaelland.dk.
Julie Tonsgaard
JT
Kloppenborg
Jens-Christian
JC
Holm
D000293:Adolescent; D001835:Body Weight / Q000502:physiology; D002648:Child; D015390:Gastric Bypass; D006801:Humans; D010348:Patient Care Team; D063766:Pediatric Obesity / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy