Obesity in children and adolescents: epidemiology, causes, assessment, and management.

ABSTRACT: This Review describes current knowledge on the epidemiology and causes of child and adolescent obesity, considerations for assessment, and current management approaches. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, obesity prevalence in children and adolescents had plateaued in many high-income countries despite levels of severe obesity having increased. However, in low-income and middle-income countries, obesity prevalence had risen. During the pandemic, weight gain among children and adolescents has increased in several jurisdictions. Obesity is associated with cardiometabolic and psychosocial comorbidity as well as premature adult mortality. The development and perpetuation of obesity is largely explained by a bio-socioecological framework, whereby biological predisposition, socioeconomic, and environ

SUBMITTER: Jebeile H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9831747 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature