Behavior Therapy and Sibutramine for the Treatment of Adolescent Obesity
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Behavior therapy and sibutramine for the treatment of adolescent obesity.
ADOLESCENT OBESITY IS RAPidly becoming a national public health problem. The prevalence of this disorder increased from 5% to 11% from the 1980s to 1994 and to 15.5% by 2000. This increase has been accompanied by a dramatic increase in type 2 diabetes mellitus and related health complications. There has been relatively little controlled research on the treatment of adolescent obesity. A compreh...
متن کاملBehavior therapy and sibutramine for the treatment of adolescent obesity: a randomized controlled trial.
CONTEXT Adolescent obesity is becoming a national public health problem. Weight-loss medications including sibutramine facilitate weight control in adults and could be used with obese adolescents in combination with behavior therapy (BT). OBJECTIVE To examine whether increased weight loss in obese adolescents is induced when sibutramine is added to a family-based, behavioral weight control pr...
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عنوان ژورنال: JAMA
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0098-7484
DOI: 10.1001/jama.289.14.1805