Abstract
The ongoing childhood obesity pandemic is a comprehensive health challenge in the 21st century with major implications for mental and physical health and disease with an increased morbidity and mortality resulting in a shortening of expected life span. Obesity should be understood as a chronic disease regulated by a complex neuroendocrine system aiming at fat mass preservation. Multidisciplinary chronic care treatment based on current guidelines, meta-analyses, systematic reviews, and best-practice standards across health sectors are recommended to alleviate and counteract childhood obesity.
Bidragets oversatte titel | Obesity among children and adolescents |
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Originalsprog | Dansk |
Artikelnummer | V06160432 |
Tidsskrift | Ugeskrift for Laeger |
Vol/bind | 178 |
Udgave nummer | 22 |
Sider (fra-til) | 2089-2092 |
Antal sider | 4 |
ISSN | 0041-5782 |
Status | Udgivet - 31 okt. 2016 |