In 2021, over 15 million children and young adolescents and 172 million adults were overweight or obese. This represents a ...

A recently published LongITools study led by the University of Oulu identified two new childhood BMI patterns, challenging ...

The reliance of the Cockcroft-Gault equation on weight as a key variable has reduced its accuracy in patients with obesity. Improved approaches to body-size description using LBW provide an ...

Being obese at the time of MGUS diagnosis was associated with a 27% increase in the risk of progression to MM.

Jan. 27, 2025 — A study shows that patients with obesity and fatty liver-related cirrhosis who had bariatric (weight-loss) surgery significantly lowered their future ... Signposting Children to ...

Talk around weight in the United States has reached a fever pitch thanks to the popularity of injectable GLP-1 medications, ...

Within Novo Nordisk's comprehensive business update to investors, attention latched onto early data for an oral obesity therapy that outperformed the company’s big-selling GLP-1 agonist Wegovy ...

Body Mass Index cannot differentiate between muscle mass, fat and bone density. Doctors suggest other markers and scans to measure how obese an individual is Listen to Story Obesity is linked to ...

What is a BMI calculator? How do I calculate my BMI? Benefits of a BMI calculator Body Mass Index (BMI), also known as an obesity indicator, can help medical experts determine if their patient is ...

The impact of obesity, particularly morbid obesity, on the respiratory system has long been observed in the clinical setting. Obese subjects are more breathless and at risk of developing respiratory ...

health.wa.gov.au Objectives Obesity is a well-recognised risk factor for osteoarthritis (OA). Our aim is to characterise body mass index (BMI)-associated pathological changes in the osteochondral unit ...