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

Researchers have quantified the role of obesity in common long-term conditions, showing for the first time the effect of ...

Obesity is contributing to a record proportion of deaths among pregnant women, the Royal College of Physicians has warned.

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 ...

Clinical obesity occurs more frequently in certain sociodemographic groups and is linked to increased risks for stroke, heart failure, and heart attack.

Prediabetes is alarmingly common, with the IDF 2025 Atlas estimating nearly 90 million Indians are affected. [1] Escalating obesity, urbanization, sedentary lifestyles, and high-calorie diets ...

Research suggests there is not clear consensus about preferred terms to describe body size. Terms to describe body size in ...

Rather than blaming willpower, 'The Obesity Code' by Jason Fung reframes weight gain as a hormonal and metabolic issue. These ...

The novel metabolic predictor emphasizes central adiposity, while integrating metabolites and other measures of metabolic ...

Most of the fat we carry is white adipose tissue, the body’s primary energy-storage system, designed to stockpile excess ...

Among all the fat profiles identified, the “pancreatic-predominant” and “skinny fat” patterns were most strongly associated ...

Waist-to-height ratio outperforms BMI in predicting heart disease risk, particularly among people who are not classified as ...