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 ...

Is obesity a risk factor or a disease? This debate shapes treatments, policies, and eating disorder care. Explore its impact ...

Medical attention will probably focus on individuals with severe degrees of obesity, and use medical and surgical treatment. As with other cardiovascular risk factors, however, it is likely that ...

The health care community has redefined the requirements for clinical obesity, noting BMI shouldn’t be the sole barometer of ...

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 ...

Severe obesity in childhood and adolescence more than triples the risk of MS, and obesity treatment does not seem to reverse it, a study finds.

The study controlled for variables such as sex, age, degree of obesity, socioeconomic status, and migration background. Subgroup analyses focused on adolescents aged 12-17. The study aimed to ...

Patients with and without obesity experienced significant pain reductions and improved functioning following telerehabilitation for chronic musculoskeletal pain.