Pediatricians Miss Easy Step in Fighting Obesity
The Record, Bergen County, NJ › May 18, 2007
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With a bit of early intervention, a pediatrician can nip a lifetime of fat-related health problems in the bud.
But a new study finds that pediatricians are failing in large numbers to take Step 1 in the manual of fat prevention calculating a child's body mass index, or BMI. In a survey of 400 patients' charts, researchers from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center found that pediatricians had calculated BMI for roughly 1 in 20 children ages 5 to 11.See the full content of this document
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Pediatricians Miss Easy Step in Fighting Obesity
The American Academy of Pediatrics in 2003...
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