Twenty percent of potentially eligible youth are prescribed glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs), with the ...

Vegetarian-associated ESCC risk (HR 1.93) remained robust after excluding the first four follow-up years and restricting to never-smokers, reducing likelihood of reverse causation and smoking ...

Worldwide, breast cancer deaths are projected to increase by 44%, rising to nearly 1.4 million by 2050 from 764,000 in 2023, ...

Meta-analysis of 64 clinical trials 'should give clinicians and their patients more confidence,' say Hopkins researchers ...

A higher body mass index (BMI) appears to be causally related to a greater risk for vascular-related dementia.

The research team used electronic health records data to divide patients into four groups to track symptoms across different obesity levels.

I read with interest the cohort study by Guo et al 1 published in a recent issue of Polish Archives of Internal Medicine, showing that the combination of a high body mass index (BMI) and a high ...

Characteristics of sarcopenic obesity (SO), including low calf circumference (CC), handgrip strength (HGS) increased  body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC), were associated with an ...

Women tended to lose more weight than men, meta-analysis shows ...

Weight loss triggers biological adaptations, including hormonal shifts, metabolic slowing, neural reward changes, and adipose ...

Research presented at AAAAI 2026 suggests GLP-1 RAs may provide clinical benefits for asthma management in patients with excess body weight.

Genetic predisposition to excess body weight was linked to 15% higher mortality in breast cancer survivors, with more walking needed to offset risk.