Beate Benestad

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Senter for sykelig overvekt i Helse Sør-Øst

Sykehuset i Vestfold

Hun har bidratt med datainnsamling, tolking av data, litteratursøk, revisjon av manuset og godkjenning av innsendte manusversjon.

Beate Benestad er lege og ph.d.-stipendiat.

Articles by Beate Benestad

Laparoscopic gastric bypass versus lifestyle intervention for adolescents with morbid obesity

Jøran Hjelmesæth,
Jens Kristoffer Hertel,
Ane Hjetland Holt,
Beate Benestad,
Lars Thomas Seeberg,
Morten Lindberg,
Erling Halvorsen,
Pétur Benedikt Júlíusson,
Rune Sandbu,
Samira Lekhal

09.11.2020: Morbid obesity in adolescents is associated with an increased risk of comorbidities, including non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, mental illness, and morbid obesity in adulthood, as well as reduced life expectancy (1, 2). Effective treatment can therefore...

Lifestyle intervention for children and adolescents with severe obesity – results after one year

Vilde Aabel Skodvin,
Samira Lekhal,
Kristin Garpestad Kommedal,
Beate Benestad,
Hanna Flækøy Skjåkødegård,
Yngvild Sørebø Danielsen,
Sara-Rebekka Færø Linde,
Mathieu Roelants,
Jens Kristoffer Hertel,
Jøran Hjelmesæth,
Pétur Benedikt Júlíusson

11.06.2020: Obesity in children and adolescents is a major health challenge. Psychosocial complications are common in children with severe obesity, and cardiometabolic and orthopaedic complications may also occur (1). Moreover, childhood obesity is strongly associated with adult obesity, thus also with an...