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Depending on the person’s individual risk – such as a family history of disease ... A better understanding of the biology and health effects of obesity should also mean people in larger ...

Obesity guidelines for Indians stand revised after 15 years, the focus moving from BMI to abdominal fat. Here’s why the country needed this weight reality check ...

Andres Moreno, once the world's fattest man, died in December 2015 - just days after undergoing a life-saving stomach bypass ...

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Zepbound is a medicine you can obtain only by prescription, and it's typically used to address obesity and other ...

There are 18 diagnostic criteria for clinical obesity in adults and 13 in children and adolescents. These include: breathlessness caused by the effect of obesity on the ... person's individual risk – ...

Design We used data from the nationally representative longitudinal survey of the China Family ... random-effects model was performed for panel data to estimate the OR and 95% CI for the association ...

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Obesity, recognized as a complex and growing health issue, is associated with an increased risk of various cancers. A ...

Despite evidence that some people with excess adiposity have ill health due to obesity, obesity is generally considered a ...