Table 3
Consequences for the obese child
Overt
Emotional and behavioural
Orthopaedic
Blounts’s disease
Slipped capital femoral epiphyses
Asthma
Sleep apnoea
Pseudotumour cerebri
Polycystic ovary syndrome
Occult
Impaired glucose tolerance
Hypertension
Dyslipidaemia
Steatohepatitis