The research comes with caveats including that the studies are limited in scope and it’s early in the pandemic. Early research showed that age is the top risk factor. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis plans ...

Researchers analysed data from a population-based case-control study linked to the Swedish Rheumatology Quality Register to investigate the association of obesity and/or overweight with the risk for ...

Prior research indicates an increase of two- to five-fold in stillbirth risk among women with obesity. Not enough is known about how severe degrees of obesity impact live birth outcomes. Study: The ...

A Brazilian study involving nearly 900 participants under the age of 40 reinforces the idea that premature lung aging is ...

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) claimed about 18 million lives in 2019. While obesity is traditionally associated with CVD, the extent to which this association is mediated by other health conditions ...

Mortality rates are high in patients with type 1 diabetes, and overweight and obesity appear to be major factors, a speaker ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Managing obesity involves a well-rounded approach, often including lifestyle modifications and, in many cases, ...

As patients with confirmed cases of COVID-19 first began arriving at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore in March, cardiologist David Kass heard surprising observations from his colleagues in the ICU.

Novo Nordisk today announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved once-daily Wegovy (R) pill, the first oral GLP-1 medicine for obesity in the US. (3) Wegovy (R) pill is used ...

Obesity is linked with an increased risk of developing anxiety and depression in children and adolescents, independent of traditional risk factors such as parental psychiatric illness and ...