By 2050, over half of the adults and one third of the youth may be obese. Experts have called for urgent action to prevent obesity from becoming the global norm.

Both semaglutide and tirzepatide would need big price cuts to be seen as a good buy for the US healthcare system.

A healthier diet and reduced waist-to-hip ratio during midlife are linked to improved brain and cognitive health in later years, longitudinal findings from the Whitehall II cohort study show.

Supporters see it as an important health step. Critics, including business industry, say definitions are unworkably broad.

Objectives This study was conducted to determine the predictors of sexual dysfunction and quality of life (QOL) in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D). Sexual dysfunction is a long-term consequence of ...

Using ultrasounds, the TKA patients showed an r = 0.560 for femoral peri-incisional adiposity and r = 0.544 for tibial peri-incisional adiposity, which indicates a moderate correlation between BMI and ...

BMI is "not a useless metric," but "many medical professionals believe that adiposity, or the accumulation of body fat, is a ...