Children born to mothers who are very obese with a BMI of 35 or higher are at heightened risk of being admitted to hospital ...

But how do you know if your child is classified as being overweight or having obesity? Medically speaking, doctors use a term you may already be familiar with: BMI, or body mass index. Familiarity ...

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 ...

They found that a child's growth was linked to its mother's BMI in early pregnancy—and that every 5kg/m 2 increase in a woman's BMI was associated with an increase in their child's BMI by 0.11kg ...

In a late-stage clinical trial, a drug similar to Ozempic was shown to reduce body mass index in kids ages 6 to 11 with obesity, according to results published Tuesday in the New England Journal ...

The researchers assessed prenatal exposures to smoking, alcohol, and stress (depression or anxiety) as well as maternal ...

The data showed that kids who don’t see their BMI decline between ages 1 and 6 have a greater risk of obesity. This risk was ...

After a year of treatment, children who received daily liraglutide injections had a 5.8% reduction in body mass index (BMI), while those receiving placebo experienced a 1.6% increase in BMI.

Researchers tracked 3,528 children in the Netherlands. A one-unit increase in BMI at age six doubles obesity odds at 18. Interventions in early childhood can prevent future obesity risks.

USA: A large-scale U.S. study has identified two distinct childhood body mass index (BMI) growth trajectories, highlighting ...

The Australian study found the greater a woman’s BMI in pregnancy, the greater her child’s weight from birth to the age of ten. This was the case regardless of whether the woman took part in a ...