A brief research report evaluated obesity among U.S. children and adolescents from 2011 to August 2023 and compared changes before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study found that the overall ...

Louisiana ranks 47th in youth obesity with 35.8% of children between the ages of 6 and 17 who have obesity or are overweight for their age based on reported height and weight, a slight increase from ...

Louisiana ranks 46th in youth obesity with 35.6% of children in the state between the of ages 10 and 17 who have obesity or are overweight for their age based on reported height and weight, according ...

Large proportions of obesity-related conditions (ORCs) among US adolescents and young adults may be attributable to obesity and, to a lesser extent, overweight, a cross-sectional study suggested.

Obesity in the U.S. is still on the rise with dangerous implications for the health of millions of Americans, a new study from the American heart Association shows. The percentage of people living ...

BMI can misrepresent adiposity, prompting recommendations for additional anthropometric measures or direct body fat assessment to confirm obesity diagnoses. The study found that 99.5% of youth with ...

Children and adolescents with obesity who received a combination of drugs and structured lifestyle treatments achieved the largest short-term reductions in BMI. Across 35 trials that reported BMI and ...

Below please find summaries of new articles that will be published in the next issue of Annals of Internal Medicine. The summaries are not intended to substitute for the full articles as a source of ...