Recent research suggests that a new approach could help even patients with advanced forms of fatty liver disease.

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The lives of celebrities including Pauline Quirke and Fiona Phillips have been struck by early-onset dementia in recent years. We asked expert Professor Nick Fox about how to reduce the risk ...

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Is obesity a risk factor or a disease? This debate shapes treatments, policies, and eating disorder care. Explore its impact ...

GLP1RA mimic the GLP-1 hormone in the body that helps control insulin and blood glucose levels and promotes feelings of satiety. GLP-1 binds to GLP1R on cells in the brain and pancreas.

A decades-long study of Danish conscripts finds that despite the rise in obesity, the inverse relationship between intelligence and BMI has remained unchanged.

The hospital offers both medical weight loss options and weight loss surgery—also known as bariatric surgery—and was recently ...

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

Here, we explain the facts behind several more of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claims during his two Senate hearings as nominee ...

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in America and the same is true for Alabama. Nearly 15,000 Alabamians died from heart disease in 2022. An unhealthy diet, obesity, tobacco usage and type 2 ...

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 ...