New Research From All Children’s Hospital Shows Few At-Risk Children Outgrow Obesity
St. Petersburg, Fla. – May 5, 2014 – A new study by researchers from All Children’s Hospital and the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center shows that few school-age children are able to outgrow their weight problems. Raquel Hernandez, M.D., M.P.H., lead investigator and assistant professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Associate Director of Medical Education at All Children’s Hospital Johns Hopkins Medicine, presented the study’s findings at the Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting in Vancouver, Canada. The