Dr. Stasia Hadjiyannakis is a pediatric endocrinologist and the Medical Director of CHEO’s Center for Healthy Active Living. She is an associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Ottawa. Her clinical, advocacy and research interests are in the area of pediatric obesity assessment and management, with a focus on the development and evaluation of clinical tools such as the 5As of Pediatric Obesity Management and the Edmonton Obesity Staging System for pediatrics.
Assessing Health Risk in Pediatric Obesity: Moving beyond measures of body size
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the limitations of traditional anthropometric measures in predicting health risk associated with obesity
- Review the need and rational for a clinical staging system for pediatric obesity to assess health risk and prognosis
- Discuss the clinical and public health implications of moving beyond body size-based metrics when assessing and managing pediatric obesity.