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Pediatricians recommend obesity drugs for children

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January 9, 2023
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The American Academy of Pediatrics for the first time recommended physicians offer weight-loss drugs for children with obesity, aiming to take early action against an increasingly common condition linked to a host of health problems, The Wall Street Journal reports. Children 12 or older who are obese should be offered medications for weight loss alongside lifestyle and behavioral counseling, says the association, which also recommended doctors offer to refer severely obese children 13 or older to surgeons to assess whether they would be good candidates for bariatric surgery, and that pediatricians should screen obese children for high cholesterol, diabetes, and hypertension.

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