While a healthy lifestyle naturally has important benefits, yet seeking weight loss alone might not give an adequate picture ...

Objectives This study aimed to identify the perceptions of university students of overweight and obesity using the health belief model (HBM) and to analyse their association with the body mass index ...

HealthDay News — The European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO) framework may offer a more sensitive measure of obesity than traditional body mass index (BMI), according to a study published ...

A WHO-backed study reveals that overweight postmenopausal women with heart disease face a 31 per cent higher breast cancer ...

To improve access to care, many professional organizations have advocated for classifying obesity as a disease. However, the ...

The study analyzed data from 44,030 adults in the US who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey ...

More than 100 million Americans who qualify as overweight could see themselves tip into the obese category under newly ...

Obesity was significantly more prevalent in Black and Hispanic children and adolescents compared with their non-Hispanic White peers and was potentially exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, a study ...

As per a prospective cohort study, waist circumference along with BMI modestly improves the prediction of which postmenopausal women are at a higher risk for premature death.

About 1 in 5 classified as overweight based on BMI alone considered to have obesity according to European society definition.

Empowering people with obesity is essential to reduce stigma and facilitate co-creation of more equitable and effective policies and programmes, write María Eugenia Anselmi, Johanna Ralston , and ...