The prevalence of overweight and obesity is escalating at an alarming rate across the globe. Health professionals regard this issue as a significant threat and a swiftly advancing epidemic. Obesity ...

Obesity has emerged as one of the most pressing public health challenges of our time, affecting millions worldwide and transcending traditional concerns about physical appearance. This chronic ...

Adding waist-based central obesity measures to BMI may improve the identification of risk for multimorbidity in adults with ...

New research being presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Istanbul, Turkey (12-15 May), reveals distinct patterns of heart, metabolic, and inflammatory health risks between men ...

Childhood obesity has emerged as a paramount public-health challenge worldwide, with prevalence rising sharply over recent decades and stabilising at high levels in many regions. Obesity in early life ...

"Obesity is increasingly recognized as a disease, but BMI is often used alone when diagnosing obesity without considering broader health. The method has several limitations, and our study provides new ...

Type 2 diabetes is a disease that involves your blood glucose (also known as blood sugar) being too high, and obesity is a major risk factor that can make you more likely to develop it. “Insulin ...

Traditionally, obesity has been classified primarily using BMI, a measure of weight relative to height that provides limited information about whether excess fat is actually affecting a person's ...

Non-communicable diseases are increasingly affecting children and adolescents, with factors such as preterm birth, unhealthy ...

Your waist size may tell doctors more about obesity-related health risks than BMI alone. Credit: Shutterstock A simple measurement around the waist could reveal important health risks that weight ...

A health educator recently shared one health concern that is dangerous than obesity, alcohol and lack of physical activity.

When children with obesity undergo weight-loss treatment, the effects have repercussions later in life and the risk of serious health problems and premature death is lower as they reach young ...