aDepartment of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA bDepartment of Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA cThe Center for ...

Background Obesity is a growing public health challenge worldwide with significant health and economic impacts. However, much of what is known about the economic impacts of obesity comes from ...

Bray states, "Non-Hispanic white women are not considered obese until they have a BMI of 30 or above. For African American, women the number is 32." African-Americans tend to have less visceral fat ...

Results Data were analysed for 91 413 patients, mean age 56 years, including 55 094 (60%) overweight and 36 319 (40%) obese, including 4099 (5%) with morbid obesity. During the study period, 90% of ...

Emerging research indicates a potential link between obesity and mental well-being, particularly anxiety and cognitive function. A study on mice revealed that a high-fat diet led to increased ...

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of body mass index on the diagnostic and surgical outcomes in patients undergoing parathyroidectomy for primary hyperparathyroidism.

Preschoolers who don’t undergo natural weight loss might have an increased risk of childhood obesity Kids normally have their body-mass index decline between 1 and 6 years of age About 10% have ...

Objective It was repeatedly shown that lower income is associated with higher risks for subsequent obesity. However, the perspective of a potential reverse causality is often neglected, in which ...

Both the amylin and GLP-1 hormone mimetics stabilized sugar levels, and showed signs of offering broad potential across metabolic diseases including obesity. But whereas Novo Nordisk’s GLP-1 ...