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