Obesity in children – an increasing pediatric issue

Revista Romana de PEDIATRIE | Volumul LX, Nr. 2, An 2011

ISSN 1454-0398 | e-ISSN 2069-6175
ISSN-L 1454-0398
DOI: 10.37897/RJP

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Simona Coşoveanu and Dumitru Bulucea

ABSTRACT

Obesity represents the most common nutritional dysfunction in children in the developed countries of the world (15 to 30% of the teenagers in the USA), its frequency also alarmingly increasing in Romania. First childhood obesity is frequent; the more precocious the onset moment and the more excessive weight of the child, the less favorable the obesity prognosis. Adolescent obesity epidemic is a global issue. Overweight and obesity prevalence was particularly high in countries located in North America, Great Britain and southwestern Europe.

Key words: overweight, obesity, epidemiology, children

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