A large-scale study tracking hundreds of thousands of individuals reveals that the timing of weight gain may play a critical ...

Children who have persistently raised inflammation are at a higher risk of experiencing serious mental health disorders including psychosis and depression in early adulthood. Children who have ...

Blood protein levels change markedly already during childhood and adolescence, and differences between girls and boys become ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Individuals with BMIs that did not end up within a normal range at age 24 years faced poorer lung function ...

In a recent study published in The Lancet Public Health, researchers investigated the associations between early adulthood body mass index (BMI) and cardiovascular diseases in a Chinese population and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers examined cognitive shifts in 2,364 individuals enrolled in the CARDIA study. Those with a moderate ...

Gaining weight in early adulthood and middle age adversely affects the structure and function of the heart in later life, according to a new observational study published in the European Heart Journal ...

Higher blood pressure during young adulthood is likely linked to a higher risk of heart disease and kidney disease later in life, reinforcing the importance of maintaining healthy blood pressure at ...

People who were obese by age 29 showed 70-84% higher premature death risk, with higher risk in women at 84% in some measures.