Childhood Obesity: Benefits of Lifestyle-Modification Therapy

Autor:	Naomi D. Neufeld
Rok vydání:	2005
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Late referral Referral business.industry education Primary care Overweight medicine.disease Childhood obesity Standard care Lifestyle modification Family medicine Pediatric endocrinologist Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Medicine medicine.symptom business
Zdroj:	Pediatrics. 116:292-292
ISSN:	1098-4275 0031-4005
DOI:	10.1542/peds.2005-0727
Popis:	To the Editor. I agree with Quattrin et al1 that referral of obese children to pediatric endocrinologists often occurs too late to promote restoration of weight to normal. As a pediatric endocrinologist practicing for 25 years in Los Angeles, California, I believe that late referral of overweight children by primary care physicians results from lack of routine charting of weight and/or BMI as standard care. However, several other factors also come into play. 1. Health and dietary attitudes are culturally …
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