Read the clindamycin obesity Results-at-a-Glance summary.

Clindamycin is a medicine commonly used to treat a variety of infections, including skin and bone infections. Because the body easily absorbs clindamycin into fat, a child’s obesity status may affect the amount of the medicine they need to treat infections. Researchers performed this study to learn how children with obesity process clindamycin compared to children without obesity.