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    Introducing excess body weight in childhood and adolescence and comparison with body mass index and waist-to-height ratio

    Weight status in children and adolescents is commonly defined using age- and gender-corrected standard deviation scores for body mass index (BMI-SDS, also called z-scores). Values are not reliable for the extreme...

    D Petroff, K Kromeyer-Hauschild, S Wiegand in International Journal of Obesity (2015)

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    Impaired fasting glucose prevalence in two nationwide cohorts of obese children and adolescents

    Impaired fasting glucose (IFG), a pre-stage to type 2 diabetes in adults, is also present in obese children. A large variation of the occurrence has been recorded, but the true prevalence is unknown due to lac...

    E Hagman, T Reinehr, J Kowalski, A Ekbom, C Marcus in International Journal of Obesity (2014)

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    Longitudinal multicenter analysis on the course of glucose metabolism in obese children

    Although there is evidence of increasing prevalence of impaired glucose metabolism in obese children from smaller single cohorts, data are lacking on the progression of glucose metabolism in this patient group.

    A Körner, S Wiegand, A Hungele, S Tuschy, K P Otto in International Journal of Obesity (2013)

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    Comorbidities in overweight children and adolescents: do we treat them effectively?

    The aim was to analyze the effectiveness of treatment concerning obesity-associated comorbidities in clinical practice.

    T Reinehr, S Wiegand, W Siegfried, K M Keller in International Journal of Obesity (2013)

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    Obese boys at increased risk for nonalcoholic liver disease: evaluation of 16 390 overweight or obese children and adolescents

    Comorbidities of childhood obesity challenge health-care systems in Europe. Further, there is a lack of population-specific prevalence data and diagnostic strategies available, especially for obesity-related d...

    S Wiegand, K-M Keller, M Röbl, D l'Allemand, T Reinehr in International Journal of Obesity (2010)

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    Medical care of overweight children under real-life conditions: the German BZgA observation study

    Current care for overweight children is controversial, and only few data are available concerning the process of care, as well as the outcome under real-life conditions.

    T Reinehr, U Hoffmeister, R Mann, C Goldapp in International Journal of Obesity (2009)