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    Pediatric obesity is a complex disease. It is time we start reimbursing for care

    Sarah C. Armstrong in Pediatric Research (2024)

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    Communication, Bias, and Stigma

    Communicating with children, teens, and families about obesity can feel like walking a tightrope between the responsibility to promote health while also preventing harm. Providers use weight and BMI to guide s...

    Karen A. Scherr, Lisa K. Honeycutt in Managing Pediatric Obesity Using Advanced … (2023)

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    Rationale and design of “Hearts & Parks”: study protocol for a pragmatic randomized clinical trial of an integrated clinic-community intervention to treat pediatric obesity

    The prevalence of child and adolescent obesity and severe obesity continues to increase despite decades of policy and research aimed at prevention. Obesity strongly predicts cardiovascular and metabolic diseas...

    Sarah C. Armstrong, McAllister Windom, Nathan A. Bihlmeyer in BMC Pediatrics (2020)

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    The Clinical Treatment of Childhood Obesity

    With the rising prevalence of childhood obesity, pediatricians are increasingly called upon to treat clinically overweight children. The primary treatment options are behavioral lifestyle modification, pharmac...

    Diana H. Dolinsky, Sarah C. Armstrong, Sanjay Kinra in The Indian Journal of Pediatrics (2013)