New data highlights juxtaposing trends in serious obesity-related cardiovascular events. A recent study details the obesity ...

Broken down by race and ethnicity ... The researchers focused on all FDA-approved medications to treat obesity available ...

Obesity in children and adults leads to an increase ... One major angle has been the race to develop an oral weight loss treatment, which would provide a significant boost to convenience over ...

Cox proportional hazards models were used to estimate the risk of each condition by obesity class, adjusting for sex, age, race or ethnicity, income, and education. Researchers also calculated ...

Excess adiposity was defined as an elevated waist circumference or body fat percentage on DXA scan, with cutoffs varying by race and sex. Of the study group, 39.7% had obesity as defined by BMI ...