Health
WHO issues first global guidelines on childhood obesity
The agency says treatment should start with lifestyle support, while medicines and surgery are reserved for limited cases in adolescents after supervised programmes fail.
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The essentials of this story
- What happened
- WHO published its first global guidelines for treating child and adolescent obesity.
- Who is affected
- Children and adolescents with obesity, especially ages 0-19, and the health systems that care for them.
- What changes
- Lifestyle interventions are the foundation of care, while medicines and surgery are limited to specific adolescent cases.
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Sources
- WHO releases first global guidelines on child obesity as cases surge — ONU News — notícias primary source
- Obesity and overweight — who.int primary source
