A research study by Pennington Biomedical Research Center researchers lays out that the largest relative increase in obesity ...

In the past 20 years, the average rate of obesity among adults in the United States has risen by approximately 30 percent, but the rate of those with the most severe forms of obesity, or those with a ...

Adults who developed severe obesity before the age of 18 are nearly three times more likely than those who developed the ...

Researchers found that the impact of polyphenols rutin and genistein on the human fecal metabolome varies significantly by ...

A new study found more than two-thirds of Reserve and Guard troops are overweight, prompting a scathing rebuke of lax ...

CVD and Obesity: When Protective Lipids Decline ... Fat Estimated With Waist-to-Height Ratio Mar. 12, 2025 — Body mass index (BMI) was almost three times more likely to classify children ...

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 ...

Use of antibiotics between birth and 2 years of age was associated with a 20% increased risk for childhood obesity.

Yet the disparities by sex, race/ethnicity, and location pale in comparison to a striking overall lack of adoption.

Researchers consider the weight-adjusted waist index a more precise predictor of mortality risk in patients with ...

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

but the rate of those with the most severe forms of obesity, or those with a body mass index, or BMI, of more than 60 kg/m 2, increased by 210%. In a recently published research letter in The ...