Childhood BMI trends — specifically moderate BMI and high BMI variability — were associated with high cortisol concentrations at 17 years of age.

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Achieving obesity remission reduced children’s and teens’ risk for developing type 2 diabetes, hypertension and dyslipidemia ...

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exposure to air pollution during the three months before pregnancy predicted higher child body mass index (BMI) and related obesity risk factors up to two years of age. Findings from the study, which ...

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The global perception of obesity as a health crisis has long been tied to the body mass index (BMI), a metric that uses height and weight to estimate body fat. However, a recent report published ...

Experts are proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial body mass index (BMI). Under new recommendations, obesity would no longer be defined ...

How we define obesity needs to become more nuanced, a report has argued, with body mass index (BMI) as a measure alone being too simplistic. The report, by The Lancet Commission on Obesity and ...

A group of global experts has proposed a new approach to defining and diagnosing obesity, reducing the reliance on the controversial body mass index (BMI) and aiming to better identify individuals ...