Childhood obesity: a review of increased risk for physical and psychological comorbidities.

By Elizabeth R. Pulgaron. Clinical Therapeutics, 2013

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Obesity: Risk factors, complications, and strategies for sustainable long‐term weight management (2017, background): “There is also strong support in the literature for relationships between childhood S6 obesity and asthma, poor dental health (caries), nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD; Pulgaron, 2013).”
Growing up unequal: gender and socioeconomic differences in young people's health and well-being. (2016, background): “A socioeconomic gradient in health in which health and wellbeing improve as affluence rises is found in many cultures throughout the life-course (1).”
Obesity in children and adolescents: epidemiology, causes, assessment, and management (2022, neutral): “…focus on adoption of dietary Health complications and comorbidities include neurological, 71 dental, 72 cardiovascular, 2,73–75 psychosocial, 2,4,76–78 respiratory, 79–83 endocrine, 73,84,85 musculoskeletal, 80,86-88 renal, 89,90 gastrointestinal, 90,91 skin, 92 function, and participation.”
Psychological consequences of childhood obesity: psychiatric comorbidity and prevention (2016, background): “In turn, these can also compound their physical and medical health outcomes.(3,4) Emerging research might strengthen the current body of knowledge in this area.”