To improve access to care, many professional organizations have advocated for classifying obesity as a disease. However, the ...

Understanding the link between obesity, fatty liver disease and kidney stones provides a new perspective on prevention and ...

More than 100 million Americans who qualify as overweight could see themselves tip into the obese category under newly ...

Obesity was significantly more prevalent in Black and Hispanic children and adolescents compared with their non-Hispanic White peers and was potentially exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, a study ...

For young adults, body fat percentage is a better predictor of 15-year mortality risk than body mass index (BMI).

As per a prospective cohort study, waist circumference along with BMI modestly improves the prediction of which postmenopausal women are at a higher risk for premature death.

Older women with larger waist circumference may be at a much greater risk of dying for any given BMI, according to ...

About 1 in 5 classified as overweight based on BMI alone considered to have obesity according to European society definition.

A new study has found that your belly might reveal more about your brain health than your bathroom scales do, especially if ...

The global prevalence of OA attributed to high BMI has steadily increased over the past 3 decades, particularly among women and in high-SDI regions.

The most prevalent complications among newly identified people with obesity were hypertension, arthritis, diabetes, and ...

A cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis examined the distribution of people by obesity level using the European ...