Health & Medicinearticle2026-10-15

Combining lifestyle treatment with medications yields best results for obesity in youth

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Abstract

Pediatric obesity can be treated with pharmacotherapies and/or “health behavior and lifestyle treatment” (HBLT). It turns out that the combination produces the best results in terms of BMI and other physiological measures, researchers have found, conducting a literature search.

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View paper (DOI)OpenAlexThe Brown University Child & Adolescent Psychopharmacology UpdatePublished 2026-10-15

Authors: Alison Knopf