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Review
. 2013 Jan;37(1):1-15.
doi: 10.1038/ijo.2012.144. Epub 2012 Aug 28.

Pharmacotherapy for childhood obesity: present and future prospects

R Sherafat-Kazemzadeh  1 , S Z Yanovski, J A Yanovski
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Review

Pharmacotherapy for childhood obesity: present and future prospects

R Sherafat-Kazemzadeh et al. Int J Obes (Lond). 2013 Jan.

Abstract

Pediatric obesity is a serious medical condition associated with significant comorbidities during childhood and adulthood. Lifestyle modifications are essential for treating children with obesity, yet many have insufficient response to improve health with behavioral approaches alone. This review summarizes the relatively sparse data on pharmacotherapy for pediatric obesity and presents information on obesity medications in development. Most previously studied medications demonstrated, at best, modest effects on body weight and obesity-related conditions. It is to be hoped that the future will bring new drugs targeting specific obesity phenotypes that will allow clinicians to use etiology-specific, and therefore more effective, anti-obesity therapies.

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