A study following more than 5,000 participants for 12 years found that straightforward clinical measurements can help identify sarcopenic obesity without relying on complex imaging methods such as MRI ...

Nearly 1 in 5 teens in the United States is obese, putting their long-term health at serious risk. Obesity in adolescence ...

Age-adjusted rates of cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality tripled from 3.4 to 10.34 per 100,000 people between 1999 and 2023 among US adults with obesity, with higher rates observed in men, older ...

A new study published in the Journal of American Medical Association showed that the chance of mortality is greater for ...

As demand for weight-loss drugs continues to surge, regulators and courts are likelier to give a closer look at how well their rare risks are tracked and disclosed.

(Andrey Sayfutdinov/iStock/Getty Images Plus) A worrying health pattern for some of the Gen X and Millennial crowd has been ...

Two related studies published recently by international teams—including researchers with the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and the UCLA Joe C. Wen School of Nursing—examined how diabetes, ...

IT seems that Guyanese are not taking seriously enough the tremendous impact that overweight has on the two main non-communicable diseases (NCDs)primarily responsible for deaths in this country – ...

Researchers led by Mika Kivimaki and Staffan Nyberg at University College London have linked obesity to roughly one in 10 infectious disease deaths worldwide, drawing on data from approximately ...

After a rumor circulated on the internet that Queen Latifah had died, the Equalizer actress posted a video proving she was ...