The RESPOND trial adapted to COVID-19 disruptions by shifting to a cluster-parallel randomized design, enabling analysis ...

and translational research and research training with an emphasis on understanding the causal factors underlying nutrition and obesity-related health problems and the generation and evaluation of ...

Oct. 30, 2024 — Young people with severe obesity who underwent weight-loss surgery at age 19 or younger continued to see sustained weight loss and resolution of common obesity-related ...

While there are no specific symptoms of childhood obesity, doctors define obesity by body mass index (BMI) according to the weight and height of a person. Childhood obesity can put a child at risk ...

New data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has provided insight into the prevalence of obesity ...

William J. Heerman, M.D., M.P.H., from the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, and colleagues compared the effectiveness of adding a digital childhood obesity prevention ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists at deCODE genetics have published a study in Nature Communications that sheds light on how body mass index (BMI) influences the risk of various diseases that are comorbid with obesity.