Pediatric Obesity

Acceptance-based therapy was as effective as enhanced care for weight loss among adolescent girls with overweight or obesity, according to a pilot randomized controlled trial published in Childhood Obesity.

The FDA approved once-weekly semaglutide for the treatment of obesity among adolescents aged 12 to 17 years with an initial BMI in the 95th percentile for age and sex, according to a press release.

Adolescents with overweight or obesity consume more calories during snacking and eat more snacks with added sugars, dairy, solid fats and refined grains than those with normal weight, according to a study published in Obesity.

School-aged children gained more excess weight during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with the year prior, with a greater degree of weight gain observed among Black and Hispanic children, according to data published in Obesity.

Adding exercise to a lifestyle intervention program substantially improved reductions in abdominal fat depots among children with overweight or obesity, according to clinical trial results published in JAMA Network Open.

Findings from the STEP TEENS phase 3a trial showed that adolescents with obesity who received Wegovy had a significant decrease in BMI compared with those who received placebo.

SAN DIEGO — Adolescents with obesity had a BMI reduction of 16.1% at 68 weeks with once-weekly subcutaneous semaglutide 2.4 mg plus lifestyle intervention, results similar to those seen with adults, according to top-line results presented at ObesityWeek 2022.

Once-daily liraglutide was not associated with greater weight loss for youths with obesity and Prader-Willi syndrome compared with placebo, according to a study published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

ObesityWeek will be held Nov. 1 to 4 in San Diego, with a broad theme of eradicating treatment barriers in endocrinology.

Among a group of Canadian children in year 2 of kindergarten, those with overweight or obesity were twice as likely to be unready for school as their peers with normal weight, according to study data.