Melatonin Prescription in Children and Adolescents in Relation to Body Weight and Age.

ABSTRACT: The prescription of melatonin to children and adolescents has increased dramatically in Sweden and internationally during the last ten years. In the present study we aimed to evaluate the prescribed melatonin dose in relation to body weight and age in children. The population-based BMI Epidemiology Study Gothenburg cohort has weight available from school health care records, and information on melatonin prescription through linkage with high-quality national registers. We included prescriptions of melatonin to individuals below 18 years of age where a weight measurement not earlier than three months before, or later than six months after the dispensing date, was available (n = 1554). Similar maximum doses were prescribed to individuals with overweight orobesity as to individuals with norma

SUBMITTER: Kimland EE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10058986 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature