The US Preventive Services Task Force recommends that children and adolescents with a high body mass index (BMI) receive intensive counseling – but not weight reduction drugs – to achieve a healthy weight.
June 19, 2024 – The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends that children and adolescents with a high body mass index, or BMI, receive intensive counseling – but not weight reduction drugs – to achieve a healthy weight.issued Tuesday, the USPSTF said that children and adolescents over age 6 with a BMI in the 95th percentile should receive 26 or more hours of counseling a year.
“Therefore, the USPSTF encourages clinicians to promote behavioral interventions as the primary effective intervention for weight loss in children and adolescents,” the report said. Several experts in weight loss for children criticized the report for not backing the use of drugs to help obese children and teens lose weight.
“We don’t have long-term data on weight loss drugs, and I get that it is a concern, but we do have long-term data on the outcomes associated with obesity, and we know that individuals with obesity are at risk for certain comorbidities,” she said.
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