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 ...

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 ...

In this case, the model does not take into account varying degrees of obesity, which are likely to affect lifetime health-care costs, nor indirect costs of obesity such as reduced productivity.

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.

Traditional conceptions of obesity might be in for a radical shift. In a new report published this week, a widely-supported group of scientists is pushing for substantial changes in how obesity is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...