In The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, Yair Zloof and colleagues1 show that obesity in otherwise healthy adolescents was ...

Missed diagnosis of PCOS was associated with Black vs White race, Medicaid vs private insurance, and normal BMI vs overweight BMI.

Limitations include the lack of individual-level data, and use of ICD-10 codes prevented analysis of histologic ... and public health interventions aimed at risk factors like obesity,” study authors ...

Obesity in otherwise healthy adolescents was linked with increased risk of serious morbidity before age 25 years. Reducing ...

Background: Patients who receive appropriate implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) shocks have a subsequent adverse prognosis. Most data suggest that patients with inappropriate ICD shocks ...

In a little over two decades, almost 260 million people in the United States are predicted to have overweight or obesity, ...

The growing number of implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) implants mean that a high ... episodes revealed that episode 13 occurred at 10:24 with manual divert of the therapy, and episode ...

In the United States, obesity-related ischemic heart disease (IHD) mortality is increasing, with the highest rates seen among ...

Exposure to extreme heat may double or triple the risk of irregular heart rhythms in people with implanted defibrillators, new research suggests.

Oct. 30, 2024 — Young people with severe obesity who underwent weight-loss surgery at age 19 or younger continued to see sustained weight loss and resolution of common obesity-related ...

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 ...

Obesity is a condition in which excess fat has accumulated in the body, such that it can have an adverse effect on health. Obesity is defined as a body mass index (BMI) of greater than 30 kg/m2 ...