The COVID-19 pandemic not only disrupted children's education, recreation, and social lives, but it also increased the ...

A new study reports that a routine, low-cost nutritional assessment tool may offer a powerful way to predict survival in patients with progressive pulmonary fibrosis (PPF), a life-shortening condition ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Every primary care visit is an opportunity to plant small seeds of change. When those seeds are nurtured with ...

Body mass index (BMI) is a calculation that uses height and weight to estimate how much body fat someone has. You can use the KidsHealth BMI calculator below to find your child's BMI. But it's also ...

Tirzepatide was superior to placebo in lowering HbA1c and reducing BMI in children and adolescents with type 2 diabetes. Topline results were announced from a phase 3 trial evaluating tirzepatide in ...

BMI alone may not accurately detect excess adiposity in children without obesity, missing many cases. The study emphasizes the need for additional body composition measures, like waist-height ratio ...

The study suggests there are opportunities to reduce childhood obesity, such as encouraging pregnant women to quit smoking and manage healthy weight gain, as well as closely monitoring children who ...

World Health Organization created growth standard for children under the age of five in year 2006. The standards come from kids whose upbringing eliminated growth inhibitors such a bad diet and ...

There are many input options not used in this example. Please refer to the documentation (r ?SimKid::sim_kid()) for descriptions of all available options. Simulate 100 virtual subjects per age bin and ...

Body mass index (BMI) was almost three times more likely to classify children as overweight than waist circumference-to-height ratio, according to a new study. Body mass index (BMI) was almost three ...