Author Details Childhood obesity and associated factors in a rural Greek island Dimitrios Athanasopoulos1 MD, General practitioner, dim35mk@gmail.com Aikaterini Garopoulou2 MD, Pediatrician, dim35mk@vip.gr Vasileios Dragoumanos3 MD, Internist, vasyldr@yahoo.com 1, 2 Vouvaleio General Hospital, Kalymnos, Greece. 3 Tzaneio General Hospital, Piraeus, Greece. Correspondence: D Athanasopoulos, Kalymnos, Dodecanese, TK 85200, Greece  Author contribution: Dimitrios T Athanasopoulos: original concept. Citation: Athanasopoulos DT, Garopoulou AI, Dragoumanos VP.  Childhood obesity and associated factors in a rural Greek island. Rural and Remote Health 11: 1641. (Online) 2011. Available: http://www.rrh.org.au Received: 22 October 2010 Revised: 26 July 2011 Accepted: 26 October 2011