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Obesity in children and adolescents: prevention, treatment

Australia

• NSW Department of Health
  • NSW Government Plan for Preventing Overweight and Obesity in Children, Young People & their Families 2009 - 2011 [2009]

Canada

• Registered Nurses Association of Ontario
  • Primary Prevention of Childhood Obesity [2005]

India

• Indian Pediatrics
  • IAP National Task Force for Childhood Prevention of Adult Diseases: Childhood Obesity [2004]

International

• Cochrane Library
  • Interventions for treating obesity in children
  • Interventions for preventing obesity in children

United States of America

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • Effectiveness of Weight Management Programs in Children and Adolescents [2008]

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Prevention of Pediatric Overweight and Obesity [2007]
  • Expert Committee Recommendations Regarding the Prevention, Assessment, and Treatment of Child and Adolescent Overweight and Obesity: Summary Report [2007]

• American Heart Association
  • Overweight in Children and Adolescents: Pathophysiology, Consequences, Prevention, and Treatment [2005]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Public Health Strategies for Preventing and Controlling Overweight and Obesity in School and Worksite Settings. A Report on Recommendations of the Task Force on Community Preventive Services [2005]

• Endocrine Society
  • Prevention and treatment of pediatric obesity [2008]

• Michigan Quality Improvement Consortium
  • Treatment of Childhood Overweight and Obesity [2010]
  • Prevention and Identification of Childhood Overweight and Obesity [2010]

• National Guideline Clearinghouse
  • Treatment of childhood overweight and obesity. Michigan Quality Improvement Consortium [2010]
  • Screening for obesity in children and adolescents: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation statement [2010]
  • Prevention and identification of childhood overweight. Michigan Quality Improvement Consortium [2010]
  • Prevention and treatment of pediatric obesity: an Endocrine Society clinical practice guideline [2008]

• Obesity Society
  • Influence of Race, Ethnicity, and Culture on Childhood Obesity: Implications for Prevention and Treatment: A consensus statement of Shaping America's Health and the Obesity Society [2008]

• Society for Adolescent Medicine
  • Preventing and Treating Adolescent Obesity: A position paper of the Society for Adolescent Medicine [2006]

• U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
  • Screening for Obesity in Children and Adolescents [2010]

• University of Michigan Evidence-Based Pediatrics
  • Orlistat, in Combination With Diet, Exercise, and Behavioral Modification Improves Weight Management in Obese Adolescents [2006]

Articles in journals

• Advances in Pediatrics
  • Opportunities for the Primary Prevention of Obesity during Infancy [2009]

• American Family Physician
  • Prevention and Treatment of Overweight in Children and Adolescents [2004]

• Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
  • Roles of Gastrointestinal and Adipose Tissue Peptides in Childhood Obesity and Changes After Weight Loss Due to Lifestyle Intervention, February 2010, Roth and Reinehr 164 (2): 131 [2010]

• Canadian Family Physician
  • Pharmacologic treatment of pediatric obesity [2011]
  • Should weight-loss supplements be used for pediatric obesity? [2009]
  • Preventing and managing pediatric obesity [2006]

• Diabetes Care
  • Metformin for Obesity in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review [2009]
  • Pharmacotherapy of Childhood Obesity: An evidence-based, conceptual approach [2007]

• Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics of North America
  • Pediatric Obesity: Etiology and Treatment [2009]

• Journal of Medical Investigation
  • Recommendations to develop an intervention for Japanese youth on weight management [2004]

• Medical Journal of Australia
  • Management and prevention of obesity and its complications in children and adolescents [2005]
  • Secondary prevention of overweight in primary school children: what place for general practice? [2004]

• Obesity
  • Interventions to Prevent Obesity in 0-5 Year Olds: An Updated Systematic Review of the Literature [2010]

• Pediatrics
  • Recommendations for Treatment of Child and Adolescent Overweight and Obesity [2007]
  • Recommendations for Prevention of Childhood Obesity [2007]
  • Bariatric Surgery for Severely Overweight Adolescents: Concerns and Recommendations [2004]

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