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Rheumatology

G121 PREVALENCE OF OBESITY IN PAEDIATRIC RHEUMATOLOGY OUTPATIENTS
R. Wilshire¹, B. Johnson¹, G. Shaikh², J. E. McDonagh³.¹Departments of Rheumatology and ²Endocrinology, Birmingham Children’s Hospital; ³Institute of Health, University of Birmingham, UK

Background: There is an increasing concern of the prevalence and impact of obesity in childhood and adolescence and its potential antecedents of adult morbidities. Coincident rheumatic disease potentially contributes further with mobility difficulties and/or steroid therapy, for example. In consideration of the development of a multidisciplinary health promotion intervention, the aim of this study was to establish the prevalence of obesity in children/young people seen within rheumatology clinics.

Methods: The height and weight of patients with simple demographic data was recorded in consecutive rheumatology outpatient clinics at a UK children’s hospital. BMI for age data were then calculated and patients fulfilling the criteria for overweight or obesity according to the International Obesity Task Force cut-offs were identified.¹

Results: Initial data were collected . . . [Full text of this article]

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