Obesity and Diabetes
Overweight Children: An Emerging Epidemic
Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, July 30th, 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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