Massachusetts, which has lower rates than other states, has still seen increases especially among young adults.

Over the past year, the question has been coming in from everywhere – from my patients and family members, from colleagues ...

Nearly three-fourths of U.S. adults are overweight or have obesity, with rates projected to increase further by 2050 without significant interventions, according to a large study published Nov. 14 in ...

A study co-led by a Johns Hopkins Children's Center clinician-researcher shows that adding text messaging and other ...

To determine the prevalence of chronic pain among community residents and its link to obesity ... Additionally, given that the study data were more than 20 years old and obesity rates have increased ...

For decades, researchers from all obesity-related disciplines have been observing the escalating prevalence of people living ...

Pudgy pets are a problem in America. According to the Association for Pet Obesity Prevention, a shocking 56% of dogs and 60% ...

In the meantime, the new data clearly show that the rate of severe obesity among U.S. adults has continued to increase. Yet if the Ozempic effect really were showing up in NHANES data, you’d ...

Lives lost to obesity-related heart disease have nearly tripled over the past twenty years, a new study reports.

4 deaths per 100,000 versus 2.9. Mohsin said the researchers expected an increase in obesity-related ischemic heart disease deaths, but they did not anticipate the magnitude – especially among ...