A Concordia-led research team has created one of the first reference charts showing how children's adipose (fat) and muscle ...
With obesity continuing to loom as a major public health threat, a leading panel of independent U.S. health experts released recommendations Tuesday urging doctors to refer children and teens with ...
An abnormal BMI in children -- be it high or low -- can now be associated with impaired lung function, but if their BMI is normalized before they reach adulthood, the impairment can be offset, ...
Body mass index (BMI) was almost three times more likely to classify children as overweight than waist circumference-to-height ratio, according to a new study. Body mass index (BMI) was almost three ...
About The Study: This cross-sectional study including 426,000 children in Denmark found that body mass index (BMI) outcomes of COVID-19 pandemic–related control policies and restrictions were not ...
A 2-year telephone-based intervention providing nurse-led support calls and short message service (SMS) to mothers was associated with a reduced BMI in children aged up to 5 years, with the greatest ...
A recent study published in JAMA Network Open investigates whether city-level sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxation affects child and adolescent body mass index (BMI) values in California between ...
VIENNA — Tirzepatide leads to clinically meaningful improvements in blood sugar levels and weight loss in children and adolescents whose type 2 diabetes is inadequately controlled, according to ...