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In a four-year follow-up after diagnosis, most patients followed a stable trajectory without much weight change. Only 10% of patients lost weight, whereas 3% gained weight.

Increase in sedentary time from childhood is associated with worsening arterial stiffness, a surrogate for premature vascular damage. However, light physical activity could reduce the risk.

Andrew Agbaje was recognised with the New Investigator Award in Childhood Obesity by the European Association for the Study of Obesity, EASO, and the Novo Nordisk Foundation.

Waist circumference-to-height ratio detected excess fat mass and distinguished fat mass from muscle mass in children and adolescents more accurately than BMI.

A polyphenol compound found in the magnolia berry exhibited a remarkable anti-tumorigenic effect on colon cancer.

EU-funded project addresses the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and diabetes.

The study suggests that the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) cut-off for defining renal hyperfiltration could be much lower than the cut-offs traditionally used.

Too much sedentary time and too little exercise can have alarming health effects already at a young age. The good news is that they can be reversed by increasing light everyday exercise.

Interestingly, diet quality appeared to modify several associations of particulate matter exposure with cardiometabolic health.

The study compared care processes and outcomes during two periods of the first pandemic year with the equivalent periods one year earlier.