Title

Key Assessment Part 2 Educational Handout

Creator

Karl Granskog, UNE Applied Nutrition Program

Faculty Advisor(s)

Rebecca Bonnett

Associated Course

APN 605

Publication Date

Fall 2018

Files

Description

This is an educational handout on childhood obesity. It delineates the increase and common complications in childhood and adolescent obesity. It informs the reader of the linkage between childhood and adolescent obesity and: hypertension/heart remodeling, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and prediabetes/diabetes. It informs the reader of these undesired co-morbidities and the increased unfavorable cardiovascular outcomes in the present and in adulthood. It provides information on actions the reader can take to address childhood and adolescent obesity in children.

Material Type

Handout

Rights

© 2018 Karl Granskog

Keywords

adolescents, cardiovascular, children, diabetes, heart, hypertension, liver, non-alcoholic fatty liver, and prediabetes.

Disciplines

Nutrition

Notes

Parents and guardians of children.

Preferred Citation

Granskog, Karl, "Key Assessment Part 2 Educational Handout" (2018). All Student-Created Educational Resources. 104.
https://dune.une.edu/an_studedres/104