New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and take into account health ...

BMI is a 53-year-old metric that experts suggest needs an update—here's what they say is the more reliable way to determine ...

People who stayed on a 7.2 milligram weekly dose of semaglutide lost around 20% of their body weight over 72 weeks.

A global commission presents an approach to defining clinical obesity as a chronic illness resulting from excess adiposity.

Definition Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a more severe and long-lasting condition in which GER causes repeated symptoms that are bothersome or leads to complications over time. If you ...

Mutations in a gene called OTP cause obesity by controlling the output of another gene already targeted by an anti-obesity drug, a study led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers shows. The ...

As of March 2020, nearly 42% of US adults had obesity, with the report estimating that more than a billion people are living ...

A global Commission, published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology and endorsed by 75 medical organizations around the world, presents a novel, nuanced approach to diagnose obesity, based on other ...

BMI has long been considered a flawed measure that can over-diagnose or underdiagnose obesity, which is currently defined as ...

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

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Huge numbers of the 17.6million Brits who have been told that they are overweight are in fact perfectly healthy, the ...