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Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology 2018

11 Obesity and Weight Regulation

Estimation of target weight

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11.1 Simulation of Growth Trajectories of Childhood Obesity into Adulthood

ZJ Ward , MW Long , SC Resch , CM Giles , AL Cradock , SL Gortmaker

To read the full abstract: N Engl J Med. 2017 Nov 30;377(22):2145-2153A broad range of public health and clinical efforts appear to have stabilized early childhood obesity rates in the United States (1). However, this simulation study shows that more than half of all children between the ages of 2 and 19 years in 2016 will be obese by the age of 35 years. The important effect of early-onset obesi...