Obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive medicine guidelines

Obesity, eating disorders

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Obesity in children and adolescents: epidemiology

United Kingdom

• Department of Health UK
  • How to set and monitor goals for prevalence of child obesity: guidance for Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) and local authorities [2008]
  • Measuring childhood obesity : guidance to Primary Care Trusts [2006]

United States of America

• CDC National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
  • Trends in Childhood Obesity

Articles in journals

• British Medical Journal
  • Body mass index cut offs to define thinness in children and adolescents: international survey [2007]
  • Being big or growing fast: systematic review of size and growth in infancy and later obesity [2005]

• International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health
  • A Review of Familial Correlates of Child and Adolescent Obesity: What has the 21st Century Taught us so Far? [2009]

• Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
  • The Pediatric Obesity Epidemic: Causes and Controversies [2004]

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• Guidelines
  • Obesity: epidemiology
  • Obesity in children and adolescents