Family based behavioral treatment in adolescents suffering from obesity: evolution through adulthood.

Background: Family Based Behavioral Treatments (FBBT) are reported to have a favorable impact on the short and mid-term evolution on the body mass index (BMI) of adolescents suffering from obesity. This study investigated the long-term BMI z-score evolution, as well as variables associated with favorable or unfavorable evolution in adolescents who beneficiated from FBBT group therapy treatment for obesity.

Methods: This was a prospective study including adolescents who participated in FBBT group therapy for obesity sessions (n = 131).

Medical and non-medical complications among children and adolescents with excessive body weight.

Background: The burden of disease from childhood obesity is considerable worldwide, as it is associated with several co-morbidities, such as dyslipidemia, hypertension, type 2 diabetes (T2DM), orthopedic and psychosocial problems. We aimed at determining the prevalence of these complications in a population of children and adolescents with body weight excess.

Methods: This is a cohort study including 774 new patients (1.

BMI changes in children and adolescents attending a specialized childhood obesity center: a cohort study.

Background: Multidisciplinary group therapies for obese children and adolescents are effective but difficult to implement. There is a crucial need to evaluate simpler management programs that target the obese child and his family. This study aimed to determine changes in body mass indexes (BMI) after individual family-based obesity intervention with a pediatrician in a specialized obesity center for child and adolescent.