Girls and Boys Have a Different Cardiometabolic Response to Obesity Treatment.

Childhood obesity exposes individuals to cardiometabolic disturbances. We analyzed how family-based multidisciplinary obesity treatment influenced children's cardiometabolic health. In this retrospective, two-year, follow-up study of 654 2- to 18-year-old children treated for obesity in three Finnish pediatric clinics in 2005-2012, blood pressure (BP), metabolic parameters, and the influence of sex, puberty and a change in body mass index standard deviation score (BMI SDS) were analyzed.

Paediatric obesity treatment had better outcomes when children were younger, well motivated and did not have acanthosis nigricans.

Aim: This study evaluated the efficacy of a paediatric obesity treatment programme and explored the factors that contributed to the outcome.

Methods: We recorded the body mass index standard deviation scores (BMI SDS) of 654 children aged 2-18 years who were treated for obesity in 2005-2012 in three Finnish hospitals, one year before treatment and up to three years after treatment. The family-based multidisciplinary treatment included nutritional advice, exercise and behavioural counselling.

Childhood obesity in specialist care--searching for a healthy obese child.

Introduction: One in three obese adults is classified as metabolically healthy, but there is less evidence in obese children. We studied the overall clinical presentation of Finnish obese children and the prevalence of cardiometabolic risk factors with child-specific cut-offs.

Material And Methods: This is a cross-sectional register-based study of 2-18-year-old children (n = 900) evaluated for obesity in three hospitals in 2005-2012.