Treatment Strategies for Obesity and Its Comorbidities in Children and Adolescents
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Children's Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 478
Special Issue Editors
Interests: pediatric obesity; bariatric surgery in morbidly obese adolescents; metabolic syndrome; non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD); metabolic bone diseases; dyslipidemia; early risk of atherosclerosis
Interests: obesity in children and adolescents; severe early onset obesity; family functioning in obese children and adolescents; polycystic ovary syndrome in adolescent girls
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are organizing a Special Issue on the treatment strategies for obesity and its comorbidities in children and adolescents in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. This venue is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes research in the interdisciplinary area of environmental health sciences and public health. For detailed information on the journal, please visit https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph.
Obesity in children and adolescents is an important public health problem worldwide, and its prevalence is estimated at 30% in the United States and other well-developed countries. The increasing epidemiological trend in this disease is associated with significant increases in comorbidities previously considered to be "adult" diseases including type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, dyslipidemia, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, and obstructive sleep apnea. However, the vast majority of cases are not related to secondary endocrine or syndromic and monogenic causes. Obesity, as a chronic disease with a high risk of recurrence, is especially difficult to manage. The treatment goals are often different from medical, parental, and patient points of view. If only aiming for weight reduction, we discovered that widely used family-based lifestyle interventions have only modest effects. Studies of pharmacotherapy efficacy and safety in the pediatric population with obesity are limited. Bariatric surgery procedures were been found to be effective in adolescents with severe obesity with comorbidities, but long-term follow-up studies are needed.
Therefore, the treatment of childhood obesity and its comorbidities is a very complex process, conditioned by many factors. This Special Issue is open to any subject related to this topic. The keywords listed below provide an outline of some of the possible areas of interest. All types of papers (original, review, meta-analysis, case reports, etc.) are welcome.
Dr. Pawel Matusik
Dr. Agnieszka Zachurzok
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- obesity
- children
- adolescents
- treatment/therapy
- metabolic syndrome
- lifestyle modifications
- behavioral therapy
- parental involvement
- physical activity
- bariatric surgery
- psychological support
- pharmacotherapy
- self-monitoring
- treatment outcomes assessment
- multidisciplinary team design
- social media and support groups
- mobile tools
- public health care system
- tertiary center
- positive and negative prognostic factors
