Comprehensive study exposes critical health risks of obesity, including diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, while offering ...

With clinical obesity, the person may experience "severe end-organ damage, causing life-altering and potentially life-threatening complications," the researchers wrote. Potential effects of ...

Severe obesity in childhood and adolescence more than triples the risk of MS, and obesity treatment does not seem to reverse it, a study finds.

Obesity affects over 1 billion people globally, with 40 percent of U.S. adults classified as obese under the present framework, ...

There is a silent 'pandemic' that is taking over the world, including India, and costing lives—obesity. World Obesity Atlas ...

An international and widely supported group of experts is pushing doctors to avoid the exclusive use of BMI to decide whether someone has obesity, alongside other major changes.

If you have obesity, losing even a little weight helps not only improve your overall health, but also prevent liver issues ...

In nine out of ten patients with type 2 diabetes, severe obesity, known as adiposity, leads to diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is ...

Obesity medication prescriptions reached 1.5 million, driven by GLP-1 agents semaglutide and tirzepatide, as public interest ...

At study start, 57.0% of patients had no obesity, 33.3% had obesity, and 9.6% had severe obesity. Overall, 55.4% of patients were middle-aged (41–60 years), 60% were women, 71.8% were non-Hispanic ...

Since July 2022, around 8,000 patients in France with a BMI of 40 or higher (severe obesity) and at least one weight-related comorbidity have been treated with Wegovy as part of an early access ...

A group of 58 researchers is calling for a new, better way to measure obesity. The global team’s recommendations were published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology on Jan. 14. Body mass index ...