Obesity is a disease characterized by having excessive body fat, increasing a person’s risk for many serious health problems, such as heart disease, diabetes, and even some cancers. In the United ...

For decades, body mass index (BMI) has been the dominant tool for defining obesity, despite longstanding concerns that it poorly reflects individual health risk. Growing evidence suggests that the ...

According to the National Library of Medicine, body mass index—commonly called “BMI”—was introduced as a system of bodily measurement in 1972. BMI calculates a correlational measurement between height ...

As GLP-1 drugs become more available, some people might use them despite not having excess weight. GLP-1 drugs are meant to treat metabolic diseases like diabetes and obesity. But as they become more ...

Higher rates of death among younger Australians from cardiovascular disease has been linked to being overweight or obese, a ...

Overweight patients showed worse progression-free and overall survival rates compared to normal weight and obese patients, indicating a U-shaped relationship between BMI and CAR T-cell therapy ...

New research to be presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2025, Malaga, Spain, 11-14 May) shows that the internationally recognized body mass index (BMI) cut-off points greatly ...

A global commission of 56 medical experts is proposing a major overhaul of how obesity is defined and diagnosed, going beyond just body mass index. Vadym - stock.adobe.com Now, a global commission of ...

Dementia is a growing global public health challenge, with no cure currently available. A recent study found that people with ...

Over half of adults and a third of kids and teens around the world will have overweight or obesity by 2050, according to two reports using data on 204 countries and territories. If observed trends ...

Seoul National University Hospital researchers have linked childhood attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and ...