Discover how smoking during pregnancy may increase childhood obesity risk, according to new research from Washington State ...

Some new medications in development are also trying to solve for a persistent side effect of existing drugs: Patients who ...

The study found body mass index (BMI) patterns that could predict obesity, with findings published in Jama Network Open.

“The whole goal of this is to get a more precise definition so that we are targeting the people who actually need the help ...

“The whole goal of this is to get a more precise definition so that we are targeting the people who actually need the help most,” said Dr. David Cummings, an obesity expert at the University ...

When a team of scientists led by a Washington State University researcher examined the way that more than 9,400 children grew ...

Obesity affects over 1 billion people globally, ... an obesity expert at the University of Washington and one of the 58 authors of the report. ...

Overweight people have a BMI between 25 and 30, while obesity is defined as a BMI of 30 or over, researchers said. A projected rise in obesity among people 65 or older is expected to strain health ...

But Dr. David Cummings, a commission member and an obesity expert at the University of Washington, suggested they could be restricted to patients diagnosed with clinical obesity. That group’s ...

To make the new forecasts, researchers at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington created a model to determine overweight and obesity trends using historic ...

Obesity is estimated to affect more than 1 billion people worldwide.In the U.S., about 40% of adults have obesity, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.