Obesity in children and adolescents: An overview

Sarah A Bradwisch; Erin Murphy Smith; Catherine Mooney; Debra Scaccia

doi:10.1097/01.NURSE.0000718908.20119.01

Obesity in children and adolescents: An overview

Nursing. 2020 Nov;50(11):60-66. doi: 10.1097/01.NURSE.0000718908.20119.01.

Authors

Sarah A Bradwisch¹, Erin Murphy Smith, Catherine Mooney, Debra Scaccia

Affiliation

¹ At Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, N.Y., Sarah A. Browne-Bradwisch is a Jonas Veterans Scholar; Catherine Mooney is an assistant professor; Debra Scaccia is an assistant professor; and Erin Murphy Smith is an associate professor and deputy chairperson, as well as the assistant director of nursing at Richmond University Medical Center in Staten Island, N.Y.

PMID: 33105431
DOI: 10.1097/01.NURSE.0000718908.20119.01

Abstract

Childhood obesity is an epidemic in the US. This article discusses the evolution, prevention, and associated physical and psychosocial consequences of and interventions for obesity in the pediatric population.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Child
Epidemics*
Humans
Pediatric Obesity / complications
Pediatric Obesity / epidemiology*
Pediatric Obesity / etiology
Pediatric Obesity / nursing*
United States / epidemiology