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Interdisciplinary management of pediatric obesity: Lessons learned in the Midsouth

Pediatrics
Endocrinology
Author
Burton ET et al.
Used Parameters : BMI, PBF

Publication Year : 2017

Country : USA

Journal : Clinical Pediatrics

The Healthy Lifestyle Clinic (HLC) is an interdisciplinary weight management clinic conceived to address alarming rates of pediatric obesity and related comorbidities in the midsouth region of the United States. The clinical cohort presented is a subset of the 609 patients evaluated during the first 2 years of the HLC and comprises 380 patients with a minimum of 6 months of follow-up. The primarily non-Hispanic black (67.1%) cohort presented with severe obesity (M zBMI= 2.52±0.41) and particularly high rates of insulin …
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