A health literacy-informed digital intervention reduces the incidence of obesity at 24 months of age, according to a st ...

New data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has provided insight into the prevalence of obesity across the United States. The figures, initially from the 2023 Adult ...

A study co-led by a Johns Hopkins Children's Center clinician-researcher shows that adding text messaging and other ...

Kids had a healthier weight-for-height growth curve during their first two years if parents were offered electronic feedback ...

Around two-fifths of U.S. adults in recent years lived with obesity, according to a study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Separate data from the agency shows 37 states in 2023 ...

which is coordinated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The data is age-adjusted to account for differences in states’ differing age distributions. The obesity rate metric is one ...

Dr. Perrin co-led a study that shows adding text messaging and digital feedback alongside traditional health counseling can help to prevent obesity in very young children. This, in turn, prevents life ...

Obesity is a chronic health condition that can lead to the development of other conditions, such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC ...

Brooke Boyarsky Pratt remembers when her childhood doctor told her mom that her daughter weighed too much. "You should send ...

And importantly, obesity prevention is on the agenda. Ard said, “we’ve always had a strong contingent group of investigators who are looking at strategies for prevention, and obviously that ...

SAN ANTONIO -- Infants whose families received ongoing text message-based health behavior counseling in addition to clinic-based counseling showed healthier weight trajectories than those whose ...

Look at Us, We are Healthy! (¡Míranos!)”, a multifaceted obesity prevention intervention designed to promote healthy growth in preschool-aged children enrolled in Head Start, a federal early education ...