For the new research, Pan's team analyzed childhood obesity trends from data collected on 26.7 million U.S. children ages 2 through 4 who were enrolled in federally funded maternal and child health programs from 1998 through 2010. Obesity was defined by a BMI that's in the 95th percentile ...
Around 40% of adults in the U.S. are obese, new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests — marking the first time in over a decade that the nation'sobesityrate has not inched up in results from the federal government's national health survey. The figures come f...
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The authors noted that children with ADHD are more likely to experience poor health outcomes as adults including obesity, chronic illness and accidental injury. They added that the estimates from the study can be used to help clinicians be on the lookout for ADHD and children not receiving treatm...
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New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) indicate the adult obesity rates in the United States are now a staggering 40 percent while youth obesity rates grew to 20 perc
Obesity High blood pressure (hypertension) Diabetes High cholesterol Other lipid disorders Know Your Doctor: Psychologist vs Psychiatrist Both psychologists and psychiatrists treat mental health conditions. Both talk you through problems, and both often work together. There are important differences, though...
Nearly 70% of 5- to 11-year-olds hospitalized for COVID-19 in the U.S. have other serious medical conditions, including asthma and obesity, according to federal tracking. Additionally, more than two-thirds of youngsters hospitalized are Black or Hispanic, mirroring long-standing disparities in...
11 infected and hospitalized with Covid from March of last year through August, 37% were Black and 31% were Hispanic, he said. About 68% of the kids in total had an underlying medical condition. The most common conditions were chronic lung disease, primarily asthma, and obesity,...