June 1st, 2012 by Len Saunders
From Family Practice News?..
Overweight children are 20% more likely to visit the emergency department than are normal-weight children, and they do so for reasons other than injuries and accidents, according to a nationally representative survey.
?I suspect that a big reason we?re seeing this increase in the overweight is that they have chronic conditions that are getting them to the ED,? lead author James Dziura, Ph.D., an epidemiologist in the department of emergency medicine and deputy director of the Yale Center for Analytical Sciences in New Haven, Conn., said in an interview.
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