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Childhood Obesity News - Childhood obesity - Columbus Dispatch

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The figures — from the pharmacy plans Express Scripts and Medco Health Solutions, and the marketing company Verispan — indicate that hundreds of thousands of children are given medications to treat Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and acid reflux. The data, which the companies either disclosed publicly in recent months or provided at the request of The New York Times , show that the idea of children eventually being put on adult medicines — heightened recently by a controversial recommendation from a national group of pediatricians — is already happening. While some of the increases in the three analyses are dramatic, doctors emphasize that prescriptions of these drugs to children still represent less than 1 percent of their sales. Doctors and some financial analysts have said that less-dramatic increases in cholesterol drugs compared with some other medications — seen in all three analyses — reflect a wariness by some doctors about using the drugs in children. Read Childhood Obesity

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