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ArticleChildren (Basel, Switzerland)2019

Use of Lisdexamfetamine to Treat Obesity in an Adolescent with Severe Obesity and Binge Eating.

Gitanjali Srivastava, Valerie O'Hara, Nancy Browne

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Article in Children (Basel, Switzerland), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
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  3. Bulimia Nervosa and Binge-Eating Disorder Across the Lifespan.Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing) · 2024
    Review
  4. Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023
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  5. Medications for the treatment of obesity in adolescents.Therapeutic advances in endocrinology and metabolism · 2020
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Gitanjali SrivastavaSection of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Nutrition & Weight Management, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, 720 Harrison Avenue, Suite 801, Boston, MA 02114, USA. gsrivas@bu.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-8326-3089
Valerie O'HaraEastern Maine Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics, WOW Pediatric & Adolescent Weight & Cardiometabolic Clinic, Orono, ME 04401, USA. vohara@northernlight.org.
Nancy BrowneEastern Maine Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics, WOW Pediatric & Adolescent Weight & Cardiometabolic Clinic, Orono, ME 04401, USA. nbrowne@northernlight.org.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Approximately two-thirds of US children and adolescents have either obesity or overweight status, with almost 24% of adolescents (ages 12⁻19 years) afflicted with severe obesity, defined as >1.2 × the 95th BMI percentile for age/gender. Despite the increasing disproportionate rise in severe or extreme childhood obesity, many children in weight management programs do not achieve a healthy weight. Most often, these patients will go on to require metabolic and bariatric surgery (MBS), but challenges and limitations may prohibit MBS on adolescents. Thus, tertiary care pediatric weight management centers are compelled to treat select pediatric obesity subtypes presenting with disease progression and disability with the available adult FDA-approved therapeutic modalities, specifically pharmacotherapy, in order to alleviate the disease state and provide relief to the patient. Here, we describe a case of severe pediatric obesity where a dedicated multidisciplinary pediatric weight management team at a tertiary care center utilizes a progressive pharmacotherapeutic approach with enormous benefits to the patient, highlighting the urgent gap and clinical care needs of this special population niche of severe adolescent obesity.

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adolescent obesityBMI percentilelisdexamfetaminepediatric weight managementpharmacotherapysevere pediatric obesityweight loss medication

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PMID30720744
PMCPMC6406487

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