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 ...

Nearly a fifth of U.S. adults previously deemed “overweight” would be categorized as “obese” under a 2024 obesity classification framework, according to a new study published in Annals of Internal ...

Almost 19% of U.S. adults previously defined as overweight based on BMI alone were newly considered to have obesity by the EASO diagnostic framework. The EASO classification takes into account BMI, ...

Obesity severity is incrementally associated with a broad range of cardiometabolic and renal disease burden, as discovered by researchers at Pennington Biomedical Research Center. Recently published ...

In the past few years, obesity has been growing at an alarming rate. The statistics of the national health services, UK ...