A landmark analysis of 120,000 people reveals that hidden central fat is rising across the UK, and BMI is missing it, making waist-to-height ratio the clearer warning signal for growing obesity risk.

High BMI and poor physical fitness during later adolescence increase the risk of both contracting and dying from sepsis and ...

What you need to know In England, 1 in 4 adults,1 and almost 1 in 4 children by the time they are 11 years old,2 are living with obesity (based on body mass index (BMI) measurements and classification ...

Obesity severity is incrementally associated with a broad range of cardiometabolic and renal disease burden, as discovered by researchers at Pennington Biomedical Research Center. Recently published ...

Children born to mothers with prepregnancy obesity face a higher risk for neurodevelopmental disorders (ie, epilepsy).

Gordon is an assistant professor of family medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. Sathe is an internist and an assistant professor of medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan ...

Obesity severity is incrementally associated with a broad range of cardiometabolic and renal disease burden, as discovered by researchers at Pennington Biomedical Research Center. Recently published ...

HealthDay News — Faster amyloid accumulation is seen over time among individuals with obesity, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, held ...

Dr. Florina Corpodean presents "Associations of Obesity Severity with Cardiometabolic and Renal Disease Burden in the United States," at ObesityWeek 2025. Obesity severity is incrementally associated ...

Erley and team found that BMI was associated with significant increases in left ventricular end-diastolic mass in both men ...