Overweight as a child is not necessarily a risk factor for heart attack later in life. If weight is normalized before adulthood, the heart seems unaffected by the higher childhood BMI, according to a ...

Veru Inc. (NASDAQ: VERU), a late clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing innovative medicines for the ...

Kids who achieved a normal weight by young adulthood had an adult CHD risk similar to those who were never overweight.

After falling short in adults, Novo Nordisk pivots CagriSema into a sweeping global trial targeting childhood obesity.

Multicomponent physical activity interventions were generally associated with positive outcomes among pediatric patients with obesity.

Following Mediterranean diet pattern together along with physical activity could help prevent excess weight gain and lower harmful abdominal fat.

Today, Novo Nordisk announced the submission of a sNDA to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a higher dose of ...

Nearly one in four adults in India is now obese, and worrying trends are also emerging among children, according to a new report released on the eve ...

In the United States, approximately 14.7 million children and adolescents between the ages of 2 and 19 are living with obesity, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Since ...

Childhood obesity has surged to alarming levels in Korea, which now has the highest rate among children and adolescents in ...

Objective Body mass index (BMI), and its adjustment for age and sex as a z-score, is a common measure of excess weight but performs poorly in children. Waist circumference to height ratio (WHtR), ...