Obesity
Studies from University of California have provided new information about obesity
Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, March 1st, 2010
"We analyzed reported height and weight and the corresponding BMI from 46,707 subjects aged 10-17 years collected by the National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH-2003). Our main outcome measure was the prevalence of obesity (defined as >= 95th percentile of the sex-specific BMI for age growth charts), adjusted for underlying demographic and socioeconomic factors. We found that the prevalence of obesity...
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