Childhood obesity can be triggered by daily habits, and needs to be countered with a smarter approach than simply a strict diet and more exercise.

Obesity doesn't look the same at age 15 as it does at age 45, and Duke University School of Medicine researchers are learning ...

Announcing a new article publication for Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications journal. Obesity, given its strong ...

Current leaders Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk have cornered the early market for weight loss therapeutics, but several other ...

For years, the conversation has centered on one metric: how much weight patients can lose with increasingly potent GLP-1 ...

Adding waist-based central obesity measures to BMI may improve the identification of risk for multimorbidity in adults with ...

Patients with extreme obesity are more common among those undergoing metabolic and bariatric surgery than previously ...

Obesity treatment can include GLP-1 medications, non-surgical procedures such as ESG stomach tightening and short-term gastric balloons, and traditional bariatric surgery. Here’s an alarming fact: 42% ...

Body mass index (BMI) is recorded at nearly every clinical encounter, yet patients with obesity routinely reach specialty care only after years of untreated disease. Clinicians who treat them ...

A diet that severely limits carbohydrates but is high in fat has the greatest health benefits for people with obesity ...