About one in 10 infection-related deaths worldwide may be attributable to adult obesity ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been tracking obesity rates, as measured by BMI, since the 1980s, ...

Just over one in 10 deaths from a wide range of infectious diseases can be attributed to obesity worldwide, finds a major new ...

By Dr. Priyom Bose, Ph.D. A sweeping genetic analysis reveals when obesity is the common thread linking chronic diseases, and ...

Being overweight doesn’t just make people more susceptible to chronic illnesses such as heart disease and diabetes—it might also increase their risk of severe influenza and other infections, a new ...

Obesity is associated with multiple non-communicable diseases (such as type 2 diabetes, various cardiovascular and musculoskeletal diseases, and some cancers) and detrimental psychosocial consequences ...

By Tarun Sai Lomte Early feeding choices may shape long-term weight outcomes, but new research shows the relationship is ...

New research shows obesity increases the risk of severe infections, hospital stays, and death across the world.

Body mass index, the most common measure of obesity, may be woefully inadequate. May 2, 2010— -- The scale of the obesity epidemic may be much worse than currently believed since the usual ...

Over the next decade, obesity rates across the nation could surge to close to half of U.S. adults, a new study published in ...