Causes and patterns of referral to a tertiary, multidisciplinary program for the treatment of childhood obesity
- 1 January 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH in Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism
- Vol. 24 (5), 303-306
- https://doi.org/10.1515/jpem.2011.051
Abstract
Despite the childhood obesity epidemic, few obese children receive therapy and relatively few weight management multidisciplinary programs exist.Keywords
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