Date	Event	Description
7 March 2019	Amended	This review has been withdrawn because it has been split into the following reviews: Surgery for the treatment of obesity in children and adolescents; Drug interventions for the treatment of obesity in children and adolescents; Diet, physical activity, and behavioural interventions for the treatment of overweight or obesity in preschool children up to the age of 6 years; Diet, physical activity and behavioural interventions for the treatment of overweight or obese children from the age of 6 to 11 years and Diet, physical activity and behavioural interventions for the treatment of overweight or obese adolescents aged 12 to 17 years.
11 October 2008	New citation required and conclusions have changed	This review concludes that combined behavioural lifestyle interventions compared to standard care or self‐help can produce a significant and clinically meaningful reduction in overweight in children and adolescents. The search was updated to May 2008. Some amendments were made to update the search strategies. No changes have been made to other aspects of the methodology. Forty‐six new studies have been included. These included information on drug interventions for treating obesity in adolescents. The added evidence suggests that lifestyle interventions appear to have positive effects in the treatment of child and adolescent obesity. Furthermore, orlistat and sibutramine were found to have beneficial effects on adiposity in obese adolescents. However, a range of adverse effects was noted.