Obesity
Society for Adolescent Medicine to Focus on Adolescent Obesity at Annual Meeting in Greensboro, North Carolina
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, March 4th, 2008
If a child is obese when they hit adolescence, are they destined to be overweight for life' Is gastric bypass surgery for obese adolescents a reasonable option' How can parents work with schools and the community to stem the rising tide of adolescent obesity' Will the almost 25 million American kids and teenagers who are obese make up the first generation to live sicker and die younger than their parents' These questions and others will be addressed at The Society for Adolescent Medicine's (SAM) annual scientific meeting being held in Greensboro, North Carolina, March 26-29, 2008.
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., M.B.A., president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson...
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