Increased Body Mass Index during Therapy for Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Significant and Underestimated Complication

• Main Authors: Helen C. Atkinson (Author), Julie A. Marsh (Author), Shoshana R. Rath (Author), Rishi S. Kotecha (Author), Hazel Gough (Author), Mandy Taylor (Author), Thomas Walwyn (Author), Nicholas G. Gottardo (Author), Catherine H. Cole (Author), Catherine S. Choong (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective & Design. We undertook a retrospective review of children diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and treated with modern COG protocols (n=80) to determine longitudinal changes in body mass index (BMI) and the prevalence of obesity compared with a healthy reference population...