According to the CDC, as of August 2023, 40.3 percent of U.S. adults—some 100 million people—met the clinical definition for obesity. But this same estimate, which is based on National Health ...

The next few months will be crucial for obesity players Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk and Amgen.

The findings offer promising support for progressing ADPO-002NP treatment to first-in-human Phase I clinical trials. Adipo ...

Oct. 30, 2024 — Young people with severe obesity who underwent weight-loss surgery at age 19 or younger continued to see sustained weight loss and resolution of common obesity-related ...

A drug used to combat fungal infections in cancer patients comes with a big caveat — research shows the medicine can last twice as long in people with obesity. This means chemotherapies may be ...

New data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has provided insight into the prevalence of obesity across the United States. The figures, initially from the 2023 Adult ...

The International Journal of Obesity is a multi-disciplinary forum for research describing basic, clinical and applied studies in biochemistry, physiology, genetics and nutrition, molecular ...

From this metric, your physician can diagnose whether you are under or average weight, or whether you have obesity. The thing is: BMI is a metric that was not designed to diagnose someone with a ...

Obesity increases the risk for life-threatening and chronic conditions including heart disease, stroke and Type 2 diabetes, which together cost the U.S. billions of dollars annually. This metric ...

Around two-fifths of U.S. adults in recent years lived with obesity, according to a study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Separate data from the agency shows 37 states in 2023 ...

A drug used to combat fungal infections in cancer patients comes with a big caveat — research shows the medicine can last twice as long as in people with obesity. This means chemotherapies may ...