In a study of more than 5,000 mothers and their children, exposure to air pollution during the three months before pregnancy ...

The researchers are advocating for a new approach that emphasises the impact of excess body fat on health, rather than ...

A cutting-edge molecular approach provides a detailed picture of the biological pathways associated with childhood obesity ...

Doctors worldwide should diagnose obesity differently, relying on broader criteria and taking into account when the condition ...

The way obesity is diagnosed needs to become more sophisticated, an international commission has concluded.Using body-mass ...

Despite evidence that some people with excess adiposity have ill health due to obesity, obesity is generally considered a ...

Clinical obesity -- now defined as a state of ongoing illness -- is hallmarked by reduced tissue or organ function due to ...

An international commission made the case for focusing on body fat quantity and the illnesses people experience.

BMI has long been considered a flawed measure that can over-diagnose or underdiagnose obesity, which is currently defined as ...

Obesity may be a serious health risk for children with cancer, according to a study by Montreal's Sainte-Justine Hospital ...

Childhood and adolescent obesity may also lead to poor self-esteem ... It’s enough in the media and in conferences and in journal clubs now that every physician should be aware that this is ...

On November 8, she was transferred, while receiving bilevel positive airway pressure, to the pediatric intensive care unit at British Columbia Children’s Hospital with respiratory failure ...