This Article  • Full text  • PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Related article  • Similar articles in this journal  Topic Collections  • Obesity  • Pediatrics, Other  • Alert me on articles by topic

Brian E. Saelens, PhD

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2008;162(5):491-492.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text and any section headings.

An important mentoring lesson I received began with the simple question, "So what?" At the time, I was proposing strategies to measure something better and a mentor was essentially challenging the underlying assumption that the something needed to be measured at all, let alone the need to allocate resources to measure it better! The question seemed valid, albeit challenging to address at the time, but ultimately was a valuable lesson in the scientific pursuit of filling knowledge gaps: identify the important gaps to fill and leave the others alone. This is particularly difficult when the issue is whether to pursue better measurement. For the burgeoning public health problem of childhood overweight in the United States, such measurement gaps exist that require our attention, some of which seem especially central to our pursuit of improving child health.

The accompanying article by Syme and colleagues¹ highlights, I believe, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

AUTHOR INFORMATION

RELATED ARTICLE

Intra-abdominal Adiposity and Individual Components of the Metabolic Syndrome in Adolescence: Sex Differences and Underlying Mechanisms
Catriona Syme, Michal Abrahamowicz, Gabriel T. Leonard, Michel Perron, Alain Pitiot, Xi Qiu, Louis Richer, John Totman, Suzanne Veillette, Yongling Xiao, Daniel Gaudet, Tomas Paus, and Zdenka Pausova
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2008;162(5):453-461.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT