The most important conclusion from the NIK audit is clear: systemic care for obese and overweight children does not work. Weight reduction was achieved in the case of only a dozen or so percent of such patients, both in primary health care facilities and in AOS. Children struggling with such problems have to wait even more than a year for an appointment with a specialist - although, as many MPs emphasized in the discussion, in fact the lion's share of patients with abnormal body weight do not need consultations, let alone specialist treatment. Rajmund Miller (KO) stated that access to specialists treating overweight and obesity as a re...
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