ESPE Abstracts

Background: Treatment of pediatric obesity is challenging and especially the long-term outcome has been modest in many previous studies.Objective and hypotheses: We wanted to evaluate the efficacy of obesity treatment in specialist care and to find out factors, which have a major impact on the outcome.Methods: A total of 654 children (302 girls) aged 2–18 years treated for obesity between 2005 and 2012 in three specialist clin...