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In a study of 106 overweight children and adolescents, ages 5 to 18 years old, the researchers found that overweight affects Quality of Life (QOL). The likelihood of overweight youths having impaired health-related quality of life was 5.5 times greater than their healthy peers.Children with cancers are similarly affected. The parent’s QOL assessments were even lower than their child’s.

The researchers suggested that clinicians and parents should be aware of this finding. The intervention to reduce overweight should not only target the physical problem of obesity but also take care of the health-related quality of life.

Reference: AAP News, June 2003, page 242

Leo Leonidas, MD, FAAP, Assistant Clinical Professor in Pediatrics, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston; Attending Pediatrician, Eastern Maine Medical Center, Bangor, Maine.

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