caa a22 4500 475785576 CHVBK 20180406123657.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/PL00014368 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/PL00014368 Wabitsch Martin Department of Paediatrics, University of Ulm, Prittwitzstrasse 43, 89075 Ulm, Germany e-mail: martin.wabitsch@medizin.uni-ulm.de Tel.: +49-731-5027790; Fax: +49-731502-7789, DE aut Overweight and obesity in European children: definition and diagnostic procedures, risk factors and consequences for later health outcome [Elektronische Daten] [Martin Wabitsch] In this article, information on the definition of obesity in childhood and adolescence, its differential diagnosis and its adverse health effects is provided. This information can be considered as a basis for the evaluation of an obese patient. Review of the international and European literature shows that the co-morbidities of childhood obesity cover a large medical area ranging from secondary hormonal disturbances to orthopaedic problems. Most of them have so far been underestimated. However, the most severe problem of an obese child is his or her psychosocial discrimination. Longitudinal data demonstrate a positive relationship between childhood obesity and increased morbidity and mortality in adulthood. Conclusion Data from the literature are in some respect sparce since they do not allow to calculate the exact prevalence of adverse effects nor to assess the outcome of an obese child when it is successfully reducing the relative amount of body fat. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2000 Key words Childhood obesity nationallicence Body fat nationallicence Evaluation of obese children nationallicence Co-morbidity of childhood obesity nationallicence https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00014368 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00014368 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Wabitsch Martin Department of Paediatrics, University of Ulm, Prittwitzstrasse 43, 89075 Ulm, Germany e-mail: martin.wabitsch@medizin.uni-ulm.de Tel.: +49-731-5027790; Fax: +49-731502-7789, DE aut Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer