Researchers led by Mika Kivimaki and Staffan Nyberg at University College London have linked obesity to roughly one in 10 ...

Obesity is driving one in six deaths from a wide range of infectious diseases, new research suggests. Globally, obesity may have been a driving factor in 0.6 million out of 5.4 million deaths from ...

Researchers also estimated that roughly one in 10 infection-related deaths globally could be linked with obesity. Obesity is widely recognised as a driver of long-term conditions such as type 2 ...

In a recent study published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood, researchers analyzed increases in socioeconomic and racial disparities in childhood overweight and adiposity in England from 1995 ...

A global study shows obesity heightens the risk of severe infections and related deaths across multiple disease types and ...

True cost of the UK’s obesity crisis revealed – and how weight-loss jabs could be the answer - SPECIAL REPORT: The UK has an ...

According to new data from Cancer Research UK, cancer cases are increasing more rapidly among young people than older adults due to the obesity epidemic, cheap junk food, and inactivity. The number of ...

By Vijay Kumar Malesu Large international cohort data reveal that excess body fat may increase susceptibility to severe infections and substantially contribute to global infection mortality, ...