Tag: cardiometabolic

AAP counsels pediatricians to focus on clusters of cardiometabolic risk factors to help obese kids

WASHINGTON, July 24, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Because obesity affects one in six U.S. children and adolescents, there is a pressing need to identify the subset of overweight or obese kids at the highest risk of developing cardiovascular and metabolic complications and to direct interventions to them. Since frameworks used to identify adults […]