Pediatric endocrine disorders of energy balance

RH Lustig - Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders, 2005 - Springer
The definition of obesity is a degree of somatic overweight that affords detrimental health
consequences [1]. The majority of obesity in adulthood has its origins in childhood [2, 3, 4] …

Obesity, metabolic syndrome and disorders of energy balance

JC Han, R Weiss - Sperling pediatric endocrinology, 2021 - Elsevier
Energy balance is complex and regulated by neuroendocrine homeostatic mechanisms
(primarily the leptin melanocortin pathway) and non-homeostatic mechanisms (such as …

The neuroendocrinology of childhood obesity

RH Lustig - Pediatric Clinics of North America, 2001 - Elsevier
Obesity quickly is becoming the largest (figuratively and literally) public health problem, not
just in the United States, but worldwide. The Worldwatch Institute, an Internet watchdog …

Obesity in children

LA Barness - Fetal and Pediatric Pathology, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
The alarming increase in obesity in children has become a major health problem in the
increased incidence of type 2 diabetes as well as other complications including …

[HTML][HTML] Principles and pitfalls in the differential diagnosis and management of childhood obesities

GÁ Martos-Moreno, V Barrios, MT Muñoz-Calvo… - Advances in …, 2014 - Elsevier
Obesity is currently the most prevalent chronic childhood disease in Western countries. It is
one of the most frequent consultations in general pediatrics and is even more common in …

Pediatric obesity

J Adam Yanovski - Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders, 2001 - Springer
Pediatric Obesity Page 1 Reviews in Endocrine & Metabolic Disorders 2001;2:371ą383 Đ 2001
Kluwer Academic Publishers. Manufactured in The Netherlands. Pediatric Obesity Jack Adam …

Childhood obesity in the year 2001

DG Segal, JC Sanchez - The Endocrinologist, 2001 - journals.lww.com
Obesity is a complex, multifactorial, chronic condition that results from interplay between
environment and genetics. The condition is reaching epidemic proportions in the United …

Childhood obesity: behavioral aberration or biochemical drive? Reinterpreting the First Law of Thermodynamics

RH Lustig - Nature clinical practice Endocrinology & metabolism, 2006 - nature.com
Childhood obesity has become epidemic over the past 30 years. The First Law of
Thermodynamics is routinely interpreted to imply that weight gain is secondary to increased …

[HTML][HTML] Metabolic impact of obesity in childhood

S Caprio, WV Tamborlane - Endocrinology and metabolism clinics of North …, 1999 - Elsevier
The prevalence of obesity is increasing alarmingly among children and adolescents in the
United States. Recent data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey …

[HTML][HTML] Obesity in children

F Lifshitz - Journal of clinical research in pediatric endocrinology, 2008 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The prevalence of childhood obesity has increased dramatically during the past decades all
over the world. The majority of obesity in adulthood has its origins in childhood which makes …