The Brown University Child & Adolescent Psychopharmacology Update
Combining lifestyle treatment with medications yields best results for obesity in youth
By Alison Knopf.
Abstract
Pediatric obesity can be treated with pharmacotherapies and/or “health behavior and lifestyle treatment” (HBLT). It turns out that the combination produces the best results in terms of BMI and other physiological measures, researchers have found, conducting a literature search.
Keywords
- Pharmacology and Obesity Treatment
- childhood obesity
- obesity pharmacotherapy
- lifestyle intervention
- combination therapy
- body mass index
- adolescents
- Open access