A recent study shows that traditional insulin resistance measures such as HOMA-IR are more predictive of insulin resistance ...

Johns Hopkins University researchers have found that nearly all adults identified as having obesity based on body mass index ...

New research presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2025, Malaga, Spain, 11–14 May) shows that the ...

Among the 2,225 adults in the study, all under 60 years of age, 39.7% had obesity as defined only by higher BMI, while 39.1% ...

(HealthDay News) — Adverse pregnancy outcomes (APOs) mediate a small proportion of the association between prepregnancy obesity and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in midlife, according to a study ...

New research to be presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2025, Malaga, Spain, 11-14 May) shows that the internationally recognized body mass index (BMI) cut-off points greatly ...

Internationally recognised body mass index (BMI) cut-off points greatly overestimate overweight and obesity in male athletes, ...

A new guideline to help health care providers manage obesity in children and adolescents takes a patient-centred approach, ...

People of all body types can be either healthy or unhealthy. To assess obesity, one must calculate the body mass index (BMI), which is your weight in kilograms divided by your height in square metres ...

High sodium intake is linked to greater obesity risk, particularly in women, even when it comes from everyday foods. New ...

There are over 1 billion obese people in the world, according to research published in The Lancet. A network of 1,500 ...

A collaborative research team from Kyoto University, Noster Inc., and others, has uncovered a key mechanism by which the gut bacterium Streptococcus salivarius helps prevent obesity linked to ...