Obesity can put strain on the heart, resulting in an increased risk of conditions such as atrial fibrillation, or irregular ...

A group of 58 researchers is calling for a new, better way to measure obesity and excess body fat that goes beyond BMI.

About 140,400 obese patients in Massachusetts were prescribed medications like Wegovy and Zepbound in 2024, a 255 percent ...

Weight-loss medicines such as Ozempic might raise a person’s likelihood of developing conditions including arthritis.

Our reframing acknowledges the nuanced reality of obesity and allows for personalized care,” said Dr. Francesco Rubino of ...

One of the world’s largest studies of Ozempic, Mounjaro and other blockbuster diabetes and obesity drugs highlighted their ...

An international commission made the case for focusing on body fat quantity and the illnesses people experience.

Councils need more support from central government to help bring down childhood obesity rates, a local authority has said.

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health ...

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Body Mass Index, or BMI, has long been criticized as an unreliable method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts ...

Obesity, long determined by the flawed metric of BMI, should be diagnosed based on other measurements, experts argue.