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Conservative Treatment for Morbidly Obese Adolescents: The German Experience

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Before addressing morbid obesity in Germany, I would like to introduce the German Obesity Working Group in Childhood and Adolescence (AGA) as this organization is closely linked to “the German experience”:

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, SMZ-Ost Donauspital, Langobardenstr. 122, 1220, Vienna, Austria

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    Kurt Widhalm

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van Egmond-Fröhlich, A. (2015). Conservative Treatment for Morbidly Obese Adolescents: The German Experience. In: Widhalm, K., Prager, G. (eds) Morbid Obesity in Adolescents. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-0968-7_5

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