dc.contributor.author | Hill, John C. | eng |
dc.contributor.author | Smith, Peter C. | eng |
dc.contributor.author | Meadows, Susan E. | eng |
dc.date.issued | 2002 | eng |
dc.description.abstract | Efforts to increase physical activity or decrease sedentary activities have shown some short-term benefit, and adding dietary changes may be more effective. Aiming interventions at parents, intensive family therapy, comprehensive school-based programs, and selecting motivated children for subspecialty care may improve success. (Grade of recommendation: B, based on poor-quality randomized controlled trials [RCTs] and heterogeneous systematic reviews.) Other potentially effective short-term strategies include screening with body mass index (BMI) for age (grade of recommendation: C, extrapolation from cohort studies and ecological research) or dietary counseling (grade of recommendation: D, conflicting poor-quality RCTs). No drugs are currently approved for pediatric obesity therapy in the United States. | eng |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10355/2872 | eng |
dc.language | English | eng |
dc.publisher | Family Physicians Inquiries Network | eng |
dc.relation.ispartofcollection | Clinical Inquiries, 2002 (MU) | eng |
dc.relation.ispartofcommunity | University of Missouri--Columbia. School of Medicine. Department of Family and Community Medicine. Family Physicians Inquiries Network | eng |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Journal of family practice, 51, no. 10 (October 2002): 891. | eng |
dc.rights | OpenAccess. | eng |
dc.rights.license | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License. | eng |
dc.subject | dietary changes | eng |
dc.subject | adverse outcomes | eng |
dc.subject | physical activity | eng |
dc.subject | body mass index (BMI) | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Obesity In Children -- Treatment | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Obesity In Children -- Prevention | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Children -- Nutrition | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Overweight children -- Nutrition | eng |
dc.title | What are the most effective interventions to reduce childhood obesity? | eng |
dc.type | Article | eng |