Obesity Facts (Oct 2017)

Changing Characteristics of Obese Children and Adolescents Entering Pediatric Lifestyle Intervention Programs in Germany over the Last 11 Years: An Adiposity Patients Registry Multicenter Analysis of 65,453 Children and Adolescents

  • Barbara Bohn,
  • Susanna Wiegand,
  • Wieland Kiess,
  • Thomas Reinehr,
  • Rainer Stachow,
  • Johannes Oepen,
  • Helmut Langhof,
  • Thomas Hermann,
  • Kurt Widhalm,
  • Martin Wabitsch,
  • Ines Gellhaus,
  • Reinhard Holl

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1159/000479631
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 5
pp. 517 – 530

Abstract

Read online

Objective: To examine whether characteristics of children and adolescents who start lifestyle intervention (LI) for obesity in Germany changed over the last decade. Methods: 65,453 subjects (Results: Extreme obesity was found to be more frequent at the onset of LI (2005: 11.6; 2015: 12.7%) with a similar trend in subgroups (p Conclusion: During the last decade, children and adolescents presented with higher BMI SDS at the onset of LI and the proportion with obesity-related comorbidities increased. Particularly the presence of comorbidities differed between outpatients and inpatients.

Keywords