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Article: Bone Mineral Content Continues to Increase in Obese Adolescents During Weight Loss
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- February 1, 2008
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To: MEDICAL EDITORS
Contact: Joey Marie McCool of the Children's Hospital of
Philadelphia, +1-267-426-6070, McCool@email.chop.edu
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Obese teenagers
who succeeded in losing weight in a year-long medically supervised
weight control program also saw their bone mineral content increase
over that period, say researchers from The Children's Hospital of
Philadelphia. The finding was reassuring, because adolescence is a
critical period for bone health in later life.
A study in the current issue of the journal Obesity studied 62
adolescents between the ages of nine and 17 years who participated
in a trial looking at the effectiveness of a comprehensive, ...