The reclassification this summer by the American Medical Association of obesity as “a disease state” effectively declared that one-third of all Americans has a medical condition requiring treatment.
Is obesity among the most misunderstood, misclassified, and mistreated diseases? Over the past 30 years, researchers have not only identified a key hormone (leptin) that helps regulate appetite and ...
Research presented at ENDO 2025 revealed that obesity-related cancer deaths in the U.S. have tripled over the past two decades. Thirteen types of obesity-related cancers now account for 40% of all ...
Obesity Classification And WHO BMI Categories Explained: By Aditya Migom Doley Weight doesn’t always tell the full story, but numbers still matter when doctors need a shared language. That’s where ...
Chicago, IL - Physicians voted overwhelmingly to label obesity as a disease that requires a range of interventions to advance treatment and prevention [1]. However, there was impassioned debate in the ...
BMI classification system wrongly identifies some people as having overweight or obesity, says study
Research from Italy to be presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2026, Istanbul, Türkiye, 12–15 May) and published in the journal Nutrients shows that when the gold standard ...
Obesity is increasingly referred to as a chronic disease. This is also how it is defined in the recommendations of scientific societies. In practice, however, many women who decide to undergo ...
BMI z-score reduction of at least 0.25 is associated with lower risks for type 2 diabetes and hypertension in children with MHO and MUO.
Research from Italy to be presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2026, Istanbul, Turkey, 12-15 May) and published in the journal Nutrients shows that when the gold standard ...
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