Study sees significant BMI increase among children during pandemic

ANAHEIM, Calif. — A study found a significant increase in BMI among children seen during well visits at a hospital in Virginia in the initial year of the COVID-19 pandemic, most notably among Black females.
Rylie N. Mainville, a third-year MD student at Eastern Virginia Medical School, told Healio in an interview that after being accepted to her school’s summer scholars program last year, she wanted to take on “a current issue.”
Mainville presented data from the study at the AAP Annual Conference & Exhibition.
“I wanted to see not just how ... COVID-19 affects

ANAHEIM, Calif. — A study found a significant increase in BMI among children seen during well visits at a hospital in Virginia in the initial year of the COVID-19 pandemic, most notably among Black females.
Rylie N. Mainville, a third-year MD student at Eastern Virginia Medical School, told Healio in an interview that after being accepted to her school’s summer scholars program last year, she wanted to take on “a current issue.”
Mainville presented data from the study at the AAP Annual Conference & Exhibition.
“I wanted to see not just how … COVID-19 affects