A new study suggests using body mass index alone may miss many people with the disease, but the findings come with caveats.

Research from Italy to be presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2026, Istanbul, Turkey, 12-15 May) and published in the journal Nutrients shows that when the gold standard ...

Researchers at Pennington Biomedical Research Center have published the first study to estimate the prevalence of pediatric ...

Did you know that according to the World Health Organization, about one in 8 people are suffering from obesity globally? Obesity is a serious, chronic condition with far-reaching health consequences.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The prevalence of obesity among adults has slightly decreased in the United States but remains higher than 10 years ago, new ...

In the first multinational study of a proposed change to how obesity is defined—which calls for health factors beyond a person's height and weight to be considered—an international team of researchers ...

Over 26% of U.S. adults with a normal BMI met new criteria for clinical obesity proposed by the Lancet commission. About 78% of adults had excess adiposity if defined by using two or three abnormal ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An estimated 107 million American adults were living with obesity in 2022, up from 34.7 million in 1990. The ...

The prevalence of obesity among adults has slightly decreased in the United States but remains higher than 10 years ago, new federal data shows. Among adults aged 20 and older, about 40.3% were ...