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Pediatric obesity has become an epidemic of seemingly
unsurmountable proportions. This book provides perspectives on
pediatric obesity for health care providers with such important
topics as etiology, prevalence, diagnosis and management. Various
complications and co-morbidities of obesity are also explored. The
editors thank our many outstanding contributors from different
parts of the United States and the world for their invaluable help
in this publication. We hope that our readers will find this book
useful as the health care profession and society in general seek to
improve this serious epidemic as the 21st century continues.
About 29 million Americans (9.3% of the population) in 2012 had
diabetes. Approximately 1.25 million American children and adults
have type 1 diabetes, and almost all diabetes in children less than
10 years of age is type 1. About 208,000 people younger than 20
years (0.25 % of this age group) have been diagnosed with diabetes
(type 1 or type 2). Diabetes care requires a collaborative approach
with multi-disciplinary professionals involved from the health,
nursing, social and educational fields in order to provide optimal
service to the child or adolescent and their family. Early
diagnosis, treatment and monitoring can prevent or delay the
long-term complications in various organs of the body, and regular
care and service to this population is therefore essential. In this
book, we provide a short overview of issues involved in diabetes
care for children and adolescents.
This book is written for the primary care clinician to help update
knowledge of pediatric endocrinology (with an emphasis on diabetes)
from both ancient and modern times. The current and future shortage
of pediatric endocrinologists necessitates steady, rejuvenated
information on diabetes and other endocrine disorders for primary
care clinicians as they care for the child and adolescent with
complex endocrine dilemmas and disorders. In view of this shortage
and the rapidly increasing knowledge in pediatric diabetes as well
as understanding indications for referral to pediatric
endocrinologists in the 21st century, au courant assiduous
information aimed at primary care clinicians in these areas becomes
increasingly important.
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