Holdings Information

Bibliographic Record Display

• Title:A clinical guide to pediatric weight management and obesity / Sandra Gibson Hassink.
  
•    
• Variant Title:Pediatric weight management and obesity
  
• Author/Creator:Hassink, Sandra Gibson.
  
• Published/Created:Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, ©2007.
  

• Holdings

  Holdings Record Display

  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WD210 .H355 2007
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Obesity in children--Prevention.
  Overweight children--Nutrition.
  
• Medical Subjects: Obesity--prevention & control.
  Adolescent.
  Child.
  
• Description:xi, 205 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:0781764807 (alk. paper)
  9780781764803 (alk. paper)
  
• Contents:1. Introduction : medical management of obesity
  2. Epidemiology of childhood obesity
  3. Pathophysiology of obesity
  4. Obesity in the context of child and adolescent development
  5. Evaluation of the obese child
  6. Respiratory complications
  7. Cardiovascular complications
  8. Insulin resistance, the metabolic syndrome, and type 2 diabetes
  9. Orthopedic complications
  10. Gastrointestinal complications
  11. Renal complications
  12. Neurologic complications
  13. Mental health issues
  14. Specific genetic causes of obesity
  15. Acute obesity-related emergencies
  16. Practice management strategies for obesity.