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Severe childhood obesity: an under-recognised and growing health problem.

Postgraduate medical journal - 1 Nov 2015

Bass Rosara, Eneli Ihuoma

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Childhood obesity is a serious and urgent public health problem. In the last 10 years, there has been a concerted effort in the USA and globally to develop and implement educational, medical and public health interventions designed to attenuate its growth. The success of these efforts was probably responsible for the plateau in the prevalence rate of childhood obesity noted in the last two years. While the...

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PMID: 26338983
DOI: 10.1136/postgradmedj-2014-133033

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