U.S. health officials have revised a tool to track the rising cases of severe obesity among children who ... "You use these charts as a visual aid," Goodman said. The old charts had been used ...

Obesity is an epidemic in the America. Four in 10 U.S. adults fit the medical definition of having obesity, which puts them at risk for serious health problems, including diabetes, heart disease ...

But charts are visual arguments ... In the highest-income nations (chart on bottom right), the association is negative (higher obesity rates mean lower life expectancy). The pattern remains ...

The nation’s childhood obesity problem prompts the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to change its BMI growth charts for kids. Updated growth charts released Thursday by ...

As we work to address the obesity epidemic in children ... about weight was to use the growth chart, which then helped give patients a visual.” One physician who used the growth chart strategy ...

In reviewing the medical chart of the next patient on my busy schedule, I saw she was new to me. I was not entirely surprised, however, to see “obesity” listed as one of the medical diagnoses ...