Preclinical obesity is associated with varying degrees of health risk but not with ongoing illness. To zero in on obesity without solely relying on BMI, the commission recommends direct measures ...

In Tuesday's issue of The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, dozens of international medical experts and people with lived experience are proposing a major change to how obesity is diagnosed because ...

A person’s body mass index or BMI is currently the best way to determine the degree of obesity. This is because BMI measures both a person’s height and weight and adjusts for men and women. If you don ...

Studies have shown that there are variations in prostate size with increasing degrees of obesity. Serum levels of insulin and leptin, BMI and abdominal obesity were compared in 200 men with benign ...

Hagman said she believes "the long-term goal of treating childhood obesity should go beyond improving lifestyle habits and quality of life -- it should also focus on reducing the degree of obesity ...

the team obtained a small piece of muscle tissue from 25 patients who had been diagnosed with varying degrees of HFpEF caused by diabetes and obesity. The samples were compared to heart tissue ...

Nearly 25 per cent of Bulgarians suffer from first-degree obesity, 40 per cent have a body mass index higher than healthy, ...

The Program in Eating Disorders and Obesity Research was started by Professor Lowe in 1989. The domains of research reflected in this program include restrained eating and dieting, ...

With major weight loss, leptin levels decreased even further, ultimately falling below the level expected for the patient's degree of obesity (see Supplementary Table 1).