The Midwest and South also had high rates of obesity for non-Hispanic white men and women. In 2022, West Virginia had the ...

The prevalence of obesity is high in the United States and is expected to continue increasing to 46.9 percent of the adult population by 2035.

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

A new study suggests that people with obesity have higher rates of mortality and hospitalization from a variety of infections from viruses, fungi, parasites and bacteria ...

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 ...