In 2021, over 15 million children and young adolescents and 172 million adults were overweight or obese. This represents a ...

Utah has one of the nation's lowest rates of prescriptions for anti-obesity GLP-1 drugs like Wegovy and Ozempic — but their ...

One of the inadequacies of using body mass index (BMI) as a predictive factor is that “current BMI-based measures of obesity can both underestimate and overestimate” a persons ...

Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk have both assuaged investor concerns over near-term growth. Now the focus shifts back to their ...

Central obesity measures of waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio appear to be more accurate and consistent indicators ...

A high-resolution spatial map of the human hypothalamus makes it possible to identify specific cells, determine their exact ...

Body weight and body mass index alone are not enough to predict whether someone will develop a metabolic disease. A new atlas of cells in fat tissue could help to explain why some overweight people ...

The new atlas shows the types of cells in fat tissue and their functions but doesn’t clarify if the differences cause ...

Although obese individuals are at greater risk of diabetes, high blood pressure or high cholesterol, not all obese people ...