- Provides a broad coverage of obesity in pediatric age
- Discusses comorbidities, trajectories, prevention and treatment of overweight and obesity
- Includes anthropometry and food intake
This book focuses on the worldwide frequent and growing problem with its projective trajectory that encompasses pediatric overweight and obesity.
Through the ten chapters it offers in the first four a comprehensive state of art of the bases of pediatric obesity in order to support the following ones with new and proved clinical issues, as recent complementary features on anthropometry and food intake and new safe treatments.
This books discusses comorbidities, trajectories, prevention, extended periods and treatment. For effective prevention, clues are given to routinely screen all comorbidities that are already present in overweight or obese children but frequently overlooked.
This volume will be of benefit to pediatricians, endocrinologists and all healthcare providers interested in the care of children and adolescents.
Table of Contents- Pediatric Overweight and Obesity: Basis for an Early Modification of Their Development
- Epidemiology in Different Scenarios
- Etiologic Factors
- Pathogenesis
- Clinical Features
- Comorbid Conditions of Pediatric Obesity
- Evolution, Trajectories, and Prognosis of Pediatric Obesity
- Prevention
- General Treatment of Pediatric Obesity
- Pediatric Obesity: Where Do We Stand Now?
