Children who are living with severe obesity are more likely to experience a clinically relevant change in BMI when GLP-1 agonist drugs form part of their treatment, new research being presented at the ...

2 Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Nottingham, UK 3 Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK 4 International Obesity TaskForce, UK ...

In children and adolescents, classifications followed the International Obesity Task Force criteria, which use age- and sex-specific reference curves to define obesity. Between 1990 and 2021 ...

and corresponding age-specific and sex-specific International Obesity Task Force criteria were used for children and adolescents. Using advanced epidemiological statistical methods, the collaborators ...

For individuals younger than 18 years definitions were based on International Obesity Task Force criteria. To be sure, the World Health Organisation (WHO) recently overhauled the criteria to ...

For individuals younger than 18 years, the definitions were based on International Obesity Task Force criteria, which calculate overweight, obese and underweight based on percentiles. The report ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Global obesity prevalence more than doubled from 1990 to 2021 among both adult men and women. The prevalence ...

To track global trends, the researchers used body mass index (BMI) measurements for adults and International Obesity Task Force criteria for individuals younger than 18. Recently, international ...

2022 American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) and International Federation ... 10.1007/s11606-014-3031-6 US Preventive Services Task Force. Behavioral weight loss interventions to ...

For those younger than 18, we based definitions on the International Obesity Task Force criteria. This study was conducted by the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 U.S. Obesity Forecasting ...