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 ...

Beyond treating diabetes and helping people lose weight, GLP-1s may also improve libido. But the reasons are as complex as ...

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 ...

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

The main results of the SUMMIT trial, reported last year, showed that tirzepatide—a dual glucose-dependent insulinotropic ...

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 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 ...