BALTIMORE, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- The risk of a child being overweight drops by 9 percent with each additional hour of sleep, a U.S. meta-analysis found.

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BALTIMORE, March 21 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers have found that a man's waistline is a better warning sign of his risk for type 2 diabetes than his body mass index.

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CHICAGO, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- University of Illinois at Chicago researchers found almost 60 percent of U.S. adults may have hypertension, or are on the verge of suffering the condition.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Oct. 23 (UPI) -- Researchers say childhood obesity varies among countries of differing levels of socioeconomic development, with industrialized nations, such as the United State