[Current literature overview on the therapy of obesity in children and adolescents].

BACKGROUND: Obesity is a chronic disease due to the comorbidity associated with it and the need for long-term medical care. Therapeutic intervention is possible at every stage of pathophysiology.

AIM: The aim of the study is to demonstrate the effect of multimodal lifestyle interventions not only on the BMI/BMI-SDS, but also on (secondary) outcomes such as comorbidities, quality of life as well as the nutritional and movement behavior.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: The literature database PubMed has been searched for internationally clinical studies on lifestyle interventions among 0 to 18-year-olds with overweight and obesity in the period from 01/01/2009 to 01/01/2016.

RESULTS: 64 publications with data from 55 studies were included in this overview. Through multimodal lifestyle interventions, many improvements have been achieved in the fields of comorbidity, quality of life, diet and exercise.

DISCUSSION: The use of obesity therapy goes far beyond a weight reduction, which is why other parameters should be regularly recorded as therapeutic targets. Thus the improvement of comorbidities, the quality of life as well as the movement and nutritional behavior for a long-term healthy lifestyle are at least as important and reduce the risk of regain after initial weight reduction.