Symposium 3: Lifestyle changes vs. pharmacological or surgical therapy in children and adolescents

Authors

  • Adriana Roussos R Gutiérrez Children's Hospital, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47196/diab.v54i3Sup.280

Keywords:

obesity, children, teenagers

Abstract

Symposium 3: Obesity and diabetes

Lifestyle changes vs. pharmacological or surgical therapy in children and adolescents

Treatment for obesity in the pediatric age has as a goal to achieve the adequacy of weight, prevent or improve the comorbidities and maintain suitable growth and development, improving health and the quality of life in the long term. Changes in lifestyles, which include changes in alimentation, the increase of physical activity and strategies to modify behaviors, are the fundamental base of the treatment.

Although the magnitude of the weight loss produced is small, holding these changes during growth can lead to the adequacy of the size-weight relation through time. Even still without a significant weight loss, changes in lifestyle can pose an improvement to risk factors and the metabolic and functional comorbidities that tend to come with the risks. Children or adolescents with severe or complex obesity must be treated by specialized interdisciplinary pediatricians, who are able to provide an integral and intensive obesity treatment, who can evaluate and treat comorbidities and who are able to consider and decide regarding the use of pharmacological and surgical adjuvant therapy.

Author Biography

Adriana Roussos, R Gutiérrez Children's Hospital, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Pediatrician Specialist in Nutrition, Nutrition and Diabetes Section

References

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Published

2023-01-10

How to Cite

Roussos, A. (2023). Symposium 3: Lifestyle changes vs. pharmacological or surgical therapy in children and adolescents. Journal of the Argentine Society of Diabetes, 54(3Sup), 13–13. https://doi.org/10.47196/diab.v54i3Sup.280

Issue

Vol. 54 No. 3Sup (2020): September/December 2020

Section

Symposium Part 1

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