Obesity contributes to more than 10% of infection-related deaths and up to 11% could be prevented by addressing obesity, ...

Obesity is well known to be linked to a broad range of adverse health effects, and key among them is impaired immunity, which ...

Drugs like Zepbound and Wegovy are intended for people who are overweight. Some patients are using them after bariatric ...

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

Obesity is a common risk factor for various long-term conditions (LTCs), according to a February study published in Nature Communications.

In every single state, researchers expect at least 35% of adults to have a body mass index of 30 or higher, the threshold ...

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

People with obesity could be 70 per cent more likely to be hospitalised or die from an infectious disease, including flu, ...

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 ...

Doctors, patients and researchers are at the very beginning of understanding how the new class of obesity drugs interact with ...

Experts say there's a gap in health care for people with obesity. A new clinic opening in Plano aims to correct that. ? Obesity Action Coalition Brooke Boyarsky Pratt remembers when her childhood ...

Obesity has often been described as a "gateway disease" leading to other conditions — and one of those is COVID-19, according to a new study from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical ...