Obesity and Diabetes

Overweight Children: An Emerging Epidemic

Published in Heart Disease Weekly, August 5th, 2007

An increasing number of children and teenagers are now obese and are at risk for developing high blood pressure, heart disease and stroke, including diabetes, even as children and teenagers. This could be considered an emerging epidemic with significant impact upon the health of our nation and the world, says a physician at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and St. Louis Children’s Hospital.

“There is an emerging epidemic upon us,” says Neil H. White, M.D., professor of pediatrics and of medicine at the School of Medicine and a pediatric endocrinologist at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, affiliated with the School of Medicine. “Over the past decade,...

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Source: Heart Disease Weekly (2007-08-05)

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