Tag: Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute

  • Nation & World

    Weighing the risk factors

    Risk factors for childhood obesity may be evident before birth and are more likely to occur in African-American and Hispanic children than in Caucasian children. Researchers studied 1,826 mother-child pairs from pregnancy through the child’s first five years of life.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    U.S. birth weights dip

    A study that analyzed data from 36,827,828 U.S. babies born at full-term between 1990 and 2005 has found that birth weights decreased by up to 2.78 ounces during that time frame.

    3 minutes