Pediatric severe obesity: Time to establish serious treatments for a serious disease

Childhood Obesity

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 283-284

  Daniels, Stephen R ^a   Kelly, Aaron S ^b  

^a University of Colorado Denver and Children s Hospital Colorado   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BARIATRIC SURGERY; CHILD; COMPLICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW CALORY DIET; MALE; OBESITY, MORBID; PEDIATRIC OBESITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UNITED STATES; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

BARIATRIC SURGERY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIET, REDUCING; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY, MORBID; PEDIATRIC OBESITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UNITED STATES; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84905485884     PISSN: 21532168     EISSN: 21532176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/chi.2014.1041     Document Type: Editorial

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