While the study recognized that unhealthy lifestyle likely contributed to a person’s weight gain, the study said a person’s weight had a greater effect on developing prediabetes than perpetuating ...

An international research group has examined how many people are affected by preclinical and clinical obesity and what health ...

A new study finds that people with obesity are more likely to be hospitalized with or die from severe infections.

Black Americans are nearly twice as likely as their white counterparts to develop dementia and also face some of the highest obesity rates in the nation — troubling numbers as St. Louis researchers ...

A new study finds childhood obesity lowers adult income rank by 20 percentile points and reduces access to low-poverty ...

The Midwest and South also had high rates of obesity for non-Hispanic white men and women. In 2022, West Virginia had the highest obesity rates for white men and women — about 47% and 49%, ...

The MARITIME Phase 3 Chronic Weight Management Studies are Actively Enrolling, and Phase 3 Studies in People Living With Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease, Heart Failure and Obstructive Sleep ...

Obesity was tied with an increased risk of developing 16 health outcomes, a large longitudinal study showed. Risks correlated with obesity class and were typically higher among people with a BMI of 40 ...

While the national conversation around childhood obesity often focuses on rising health care costs, new research co-authored ...

People with obesity are at 70 percent higher risk of serious infections, with one in ten infectious disease deaths globally potentially linked to obesity, according to a new study. View on euronews ...

AIG Hospitals study reveals genetic factors increase obesity risk in Indians, but healthy lifestyles can mitigate this impact ...

A new study finds that a child's level of excess body fat is a stronger indicator of pre-diabetes or type II diabetes than a ...