Childhood Obesity in the State of Missouri: A Review for Providers to Counsel and Treat Patients.

Usman Hasnie, Matthew Lindquist, Brooke Sweeney, Sarah Hampl, Betty M Drees

Journal: Missouri medicine 2020;116(5):409-413

PMID: 31645795

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Abstract

Childhood obesity is a common disease both nationally and in the state of Missouri. Obesity in childhood is often under-recognized and is difficult to treat. Screening, accurate diagnosis, and counseling is imperative to proper management. Common barriers to treatment include a lack of accurate identification and a lack of awareness of needed and available treatments of this disease in the pediatric setting. This review article highlights behavioral measures as well as pharmacologic and surgical therapies for obesity in children. This review is intended as guidance for providers to properly counsel and treat patients with this disease.

Address: Usman Hasnie, MD, is with the University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Medicine; Matthew Lindquist, DO, Brooke Sweeney, MD, and Sarah Hampl, MD, are with the University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Medicine and Children's Mercy-Kansas City. Betty M. Drees, MD, MSMA member since 2000, is with the university of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, and the Graduate School of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research (no funding was received from this source) in Kansas City, Missouri.

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MeSH Terms: Adolescent, Child, Child, Preschool, Diet, Healthy, Exercise, Humans, Missouri, Pediatric Obesity, Primary Health Care