Obese Children Who Lose Weight Decrease Their CV Risks
From The New England Journal Of Medicine
Target the Right Population
Juonala et al. found that during an interval of almost 25 years, “only 15% of subjects who were of normal weight as children [became] obese as adults, whereas 65% of those who were overweight or obese as children and 82% of those who were obese as children were obese as adults,” said Dr. Albert P. Rocchini.
“These figures suggest that targeting interventions for obesity prevention and treatment specifically to children who are at high risk for becoming obese will prove to be a more valuable and more cost-effective strategy than targeting these interventions to whole populations of children,” he noted.
DR. ROCCHINI is in the pediatric cardiology division at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. These remarks were taken from his editorial comment accompanying the report of Dr. Juonala et al. (N. Engl. J. Med. 2011;365:1927-9). Dr. Rocchini said he had no relevant financial disclosures.
