About 1 in 5 classified as overweight based on BMI alone considered to have obesity according to European society definition.

The higher a person’s body mass index (BMI), the higher their risk for complications after bariatric surgery, such as higher rates of emergency department visits and readmissions, according to a study ...

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

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

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

The age range was 20 to 49 years. They analyzed how BMI scores changed over 15 years and how well these scores predicted health risks based on death certificates registered as of December 31, 2019.

When a team of scientists led by a Washington State University researcher examined the way that more than 9,400 children grew from toddlers to pre-adolescents, two distinct trajectories emerged.

New research shows that weight stigma—and not weight itself—has the biggest impact on mental health and healthy behaviors in the years after weight-loss surgery. Researchers found that patients who ...

Menarche that begins “anytime between the age of 10 and 14 is considered normal,” Dr. Anne-Marie Amies Oelschlager, pediatric and adolescent gynecologist at the University of Washington School ...

The study included data from Meta-Air2, an ongoing substudy of the Southern California's Children's Health Study (CHS) and featured 282 participants enrolled in kindergarten or first grade in 2003 ...

President Trump’s administration has launched a review of alleged antisemitic activity at the University of Washington after an anti-Israel protest sparked dozens of arrests Monday.