Orthopedic complications of overweight in children and adolescents

ED Taylor, KR Theim, MC Mirch, S Ghorbani… - …, 2006 - publications.aap.org
OBJECTIVE. Few studies have quantified the prevalence of weight-related orthopedic
conditions in otherwise healthy overweight children. The goal of the present investigation
was to describe the musculoskeletal consequences of pediatric overweight in a large
pediatric cohort of children that included severely overweight children. METHODS. Medical
charts from 227 overweight and 128 nonoverweight children and adolescents who were
enrolled in pediatric clinical studies at the National Institutes of Health from 1996 to 2004 …
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