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Overweight Children and Adolescents: Screen, Assess and Manage

Assessment of Overweight Children and Adolescents
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4. Assessment of Overweight Children and Adolescents

The resources below provide guidelines for identifying children and adolescents at risk of consequences of overweight:

Bullet Classification of cholesterol levels in high-risk children and adolescents (excerpted from Bright Futures in Practice: Nutrition, p. 208)

Bullet Blood pressure levels for 90th and 95th percentiles of blood pressure for boys and girls aged 1 to 17 years (excerpted from Bright Futures in Practice: Nutrition, p. 212-215)

Bullet American Diabetes Association position paper on type 2 diabetes in children including recommendations for diagnostic testing:

American Diabetes Association. Type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents. Pediatrics 2000; 105: 3; 671-680.
 

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