BACKGROUND: Youth with developmental disability are at increased risk of obesity; literature focusing on the two is rare.
OBJECTIVE: To identify characteristics and outcomes of youth presenting for obesity care having a disability as compared to without.
METHODS: A medical record review of youth aged 2-18 years initiating obesity care 2013-2015 at a tertiary care obesity management program. Youth were grouped by disability status to identify differences in presenting characteristics and factors associated with a reduction in body mass index (BMI) percent of the 95th BMI percentile (BMIp95) over 12 months. Logistic regression (LR) models examined associations with BMIp95 drop (
RESULTS: Of 887 subjects, 253 (28.5%) had a disability. At presentation, youth with disability were more often (p \u3c 0.01) male (58.5% versus 47.9%), had birth weight
CONCLUSION: Youth with developmental disabilities were as successful in obesity care as those without disabilities. Predictors of success differed between the groups
