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DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF OBESE CHILDREN WITH INSULIN RESISTANCE

M. van der Aa

Last decades, the prevalence of childhood obesity is rising, with rates up to 17.4% in the U.S.. In the Netherlands, the prevalence of childhood obesity varied in 2010 from 1.8% in native boys to 8.4% in boys of Turkish descent. For children standard deviation scores (SDS), z-scores, or percentiles are used to the define overweight and obesity. Cut-off values used in the Netherlands are BMI-SDS > 1.1 (BMI > p85) for overweight and BMI-SDS > 2.3 (BMI > p95) for obesity.