Evidence for identifying children at risk for being overweight, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes in primary care.

Introduction: Practitioners have noted the escalating risk for children being overweight and having cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. The purpose of this study was to apply current recommendations in examining children and to test an expanded model of assessment to predict risk.

Method: A nonexperimental descriptive design was applied at an academic nurse-managed clinic.