Detecting overweight children in primary care: Do national data reflect the typical urban practice?

Acknowledgments

The author would like to thank the pediatric practices who collaborated in this study and are particularly grateful to Drs Cozza, Lana, Laws, McNally, Vaughan and Vetrano. The Authors are indebted to Mrs Sherry Ortiz for her assistance in the manuscript preparation. This work was presented in part at the 2004 Pediatric Academic Society Annual Meeting.

CORRESPONDENCE
Teresa Quattrin, MD, Chief, Division of Endocrinology/Diabetes, Women and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo, 219 Bryant Street, Buffalo, NY 14222. E-mail: quattrin@buffalo.edu