Being overweight is defined as having more body fat than is ideal for good health. Body mass index (BMI) is a measuring tool to define whether a person is in the overweight category. While overweight ...

A new study reveals that Roux-en-Y gastric bypass in adolescents with morbid obesity results in a uniform reduction in BMI of approximately 37%, regardless of the degree of obesity before surgery.

Viking Therapeutics, Inc. (Viking) (NASDAQ: VKTX), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel therapies for metabolic and endocrine disorders, today announced the ...

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Between 2005 and 2010, the proportion of overweight or obese Indian adolescents climbed from 16.3% to 19.3%, the second-highest rate in the world ...

Extremely obese people — those with a body mass index (BMI) greater than 40 kg/m 2 — have higher mortality rates, and most of these additional deaths are caused by cancer, heart disease, and diabetes, ...

According Savvy Senior, around 30% of Americans age 65+ are dealing with obesity, but there are even more wanting to lose weight. Traditional Medicare helps with specific weight loss treatments like ...

This would not be the first time that public-health experts have prematurely celebrated the peak of America’s obesity crisis.

For patients with severe obesity undergoing knee or hip replacement, commonly obtained laboratory values – including markers of anemia and inflammation – are independent predictors of the risk of ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. hospitals are ripping out wall-mounted toilets and replacing them with floor models to better support obese patients. The Federal Transit Administration wants buses to be ...