Time for a new framework that treats obesity in children as an adiposity-based chronic disease

Affiliations

• ¹ European Association for the Study of Obesity, Teddington, UK. melania.manco@opbg.net.
• ² Research Unit for Preventive and Predictive Medicine, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy. melania.manco@opbg.net.
• ³ European Association for the Study of Obesity, Teddington, UK.
• ⁴ Children's Hospital, Landpítali University Hospital, Reykjavík, Iceland.
• ⁵ Helmholtz Institute for Metabolism, Obesity and Vascular Research (HI-MAG), Helmholtz Munich and University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
• ⁶ German Center for Child and Adolescent Health (DZKJ), Leipzig, Germany.
• ⁷ Department of Food Studies, Nutrition and Dietetics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
• ⁸ Obesity Research and Care Group, School of Physiotherapy, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dublin, Ireland.
• ⁹ Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Copenhagen University Hospital-Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg, Frederiksberg, Denmark.