The study analyzed data from 44,030 adults in the US who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey ...

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).

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 ...

A new study reveals that astrocytes, star-shaped brain cells in the striatum, are key players in how obesity alters brain function and metabolism.