Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Child obesity has become a global health problem. The younger treatment starts the better outcome, but few treatment modalities are efficient. Whether obese children have an increased risk of neurodevelopmental disorders with worse treatment outcome is not studied. Objectives: To investigate the prevalence of ADHD, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other neurodevelopmental disorders in obese children. As a second objective gender differences were evaluated.<p ...