Cardiometabolic risk factors in treatment-seeking youth versus population youth with obesity.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although obesity affects approximately one in five youths, only a fraction is treated in pediatric weight management clinics. Characteristics distinguishing youth with obesity who seek weight management treatment from those who do not are largely unknown. Yet identification of specific health characteristics which differentiate treatment-seeking from non-treatment seeking youth with obesity may shed light on underlying motivations for pursuing treatment.

Objectives

Compare the cardiometabolic profiles of an obesity treatment-seeking sample of youth to a population-based sample of youth with obesity, while controlling for body mass index (BMI).

Methods

This cross-sectional study included participants, ages 12-17 years, with obesity from the Pediatric Obesity

SUBMITTER: Fox CK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6009991 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature