Forty-one children and adolescents with a history of breathing difficulty during sleep and morbid obesity, defined as greater than 150% ideal body weight, underwent polysomnography to determine ...

A child rapist died in jail after his weight ... When Hillitt arrived at Parc in 2020 he was morbidly obese with a weight of 198kg (31.2st) and had a body mass index (BMI) above 56.

"A standard supermarket chicken grows so fast that if we were to genetically breed humans in the same way, it would be the equivalent of a morbidly obese 28-stone three-year-old - a stark image ...

In both industrialized and emerging countries, the percentage of adults and children with obesity is increasing annually. It is no longer unusual to encounter a patient with extreme or morbid obesity ...

Leaha Miller is used to strangers staring at her little girl, Ellie, but she just wishes they would take a moment to stop and ...

Foschi and colleagues used botulinum toxin A (BTX) to inhibit muscle contraction in the gastric wall in morbidly obese patients and assessed the subsequent changes in food intake and body weight.