Over 40% of Americans are obese, yet diets keep failing. Experts say focusing on fitness, not calories, is the real solution.

Impaired kidney function was also identified as a key risk factor for heart disease, contributing to about 12% of global ...

Weight loss at the time of GLP-1 discontinuation was 10.1% overall, 9.7% for those with T2D, and 11.1% for those without.

A large study published in The Lancet Regional Health – Americas shows that waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) is a stronger and ...

Nearly half of adults living with diabetes don’t know they have it, and few of those in treatment are hitting healthy blood ...

ACTG, a global clinical trials network focused on HIV and other infectious diseases, today announced data finding that treating people living with HIV and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic ...

Higher alcohol consumption was linked to greater risk for cirrhosis and liver-related events among patients with metabolic ...

Lead author Dr. Thiago Bosco Mendes from the University of Pittsburgh explained, “When we considered traditional risk factors, only waist-to-height ratio continued to predict future heart disease.” ...

Earlier this week, major menopause news broke: the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) removed the black-box warning, the ...

There are many reasons people avoid healthcare visits, and while much attention has been necessarily placed on financial barriers, avoidance stemming from weight bias and stigma has been largely ...

While high BMI is a well-established risk factor for these cancers, the global, regional, and national burden attributable to high BMI remains underexplored. To address this, the researchers ...