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Journal of the American College of Nutrition, Vol 1, Issue 2 187-192, Copyright © 1982 by American College of Nutrition

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Childhood versus adult onset obesity in a comprehensive, multidisciplinary weight reduction program

N. J. Nasr, M. V. Kaminski Jr and K. Sriram

The weight loss of 16 obese patients (greater than 130% ideal body weight) who participated for three months in a comprehensive, multidisciplinary weight reduction program was studied. Patients were divided into two groups based on the reported time of onset of their obesity. Childhood-onset obesity was defined in this study as marked weight gain by the age of 11. Adult-onset obesity was defined as weight gain occurring at 18 years of age or later. Each group of patients consisted of two males and six females. The childhood-onset obesity group lost significantly more weight than the adult-onset obesity group during this three-month period (19.45 +/- 3.6% versus 16.17 +/- 2.8%). This preliminary study suggests that patients with childhood-onset obesity tend to lose more weight in a comprehensive multidisciplinary weight reduction program than patients with adult onset obesity.




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