According to a study, overweight or obese children have a significantly higher risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in adulthood. Jennifer Lynn Baker, a professor at ...

WalletHub released a new analysis ranking America's most overweight cities, based on obesity rates, health consequences and ...

New research to be presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2025, Malaga, Spain, 11-14 May) shows that having an overweight or obesity trajectory during childhood is associated with ...

Body mass index (BMI) was almost three times more likely to classify children as overweight than waist circumference-to-height ratio, according to a new study.

Children overweight or obese may be at an increased risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in adulthood, ...

More than half of all adults and a third of children, teenagers and young adults around the world are predicted to be overweight or obese by 2050. The findings come from a new study of global data, ...

By 2050, over half of the adults and one third of the youth may be obese. Experts have called for urgent action to prevent ...

shows that having an overweight or obese trajectory during childhood is associated with an increased risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in adulthood. The study is by Frida ...

While smoking is a major risk factor for COPD, other risk factors like environmental, occupational, and early life factors ...

Moving from Melbourne’s north to the west brought home to Maddison Dass what researchers have just revealed – there is not ...

A new study warns that nearly 60% of adults and one-third of children worldwide will be overweight or obese by 2050 unless ...