As optimism for GLP-1 receptor agonists for weight loss has grown, so too has their use in children. Currently, liraglutide ...

Obesity is defined as a body mass index (BMI) of greater than 30 kg/m2. Blood lipid profiling in a pediatric cohort identified lipid species associated with cardiometabolic risk factors.

Obesity is chronic disease and causal precursor to myriad other conditions, including type 2 diabetes. In an earlier analysis of the SURMOUNT-1 trial, tirzepatide was shown to provide substantial ...

JAMA Pediatrics (formerly Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine) is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by the American Medical Association. It publishes original clinical ...

Get professional help: In addition to advice from your child’s pediatrician, seek out guidance from pediatric obesity specialists and nutritionists to help guide and monitor obesity treatment.

Childhood obesity has become a worldwide epidemic in the 21st century. Its treatment is challenging and often ineffective, among others due to complex, often not obvious causes. Awareness of the ...

Can a new molecule help regulate hunger and body weight? Researchers have discovered BHB-Phe, which targets neurons to ...

Oct. 30, 2024 — Young people with severe obesity who underwent weight-loss surgery at age 19 or younger continued to see sustained weight loss and resolution of common obesity-related ...

3 in the Journal of the American Medical Association to coincide with the ... and colleagues compared the effectiveness of adding a digital childhood obesity prevention intervention to health behavior ...

A manufacturer-funded study found a significant decrease in annual total medical costs in patients with overweight/obesity ...

Editor’s note: Watch “Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports: Is Ozempic Right For You?” at 8 p.m. Sunday, November 17, on CNN. In a little over two decades, almost 260 million people in the United States ...