Emerging research challenges the conventional BMI approach in cancer care, showing that body composition—not just weight—can significantly impact survival outcomes.

Preschoolers who don’t undergo natural weight loss might have an increased risk of childhood obesity Kids normally have their body-mass index decline between 1 and 6 years of age About 10% have ...

Kids in that group were much more likely to develop childhood obesity, with an average BMI greater than 99% of their peers, researchers found. “The fact that we can identify unusual BMI patterns ...

“The fact that we can identify unusual BMI patterns as early as age 3.5 shows how critical early childhood is for preventing obesity,” lead researcher Chang Liu, an assistant professor of ...

A new study reveals that Roux-en-Y gastric bypass in adolescents with morbid obesity results in a uniform reduction in BMI of approximately 37%, regardless of the degree of obesity before surgery ...

The most widely used anthropometric measure of total and overall body adiposity is the body mass index (BMI). BMI is a height-adjusted weight that is associated with many cardiovascular diseases ...

Background: Patients with morbid obesity have an increased risk for anxiety and depression. The "duodenal switch" is perhaps the most effective obesity surgery procedure for inducing weight loss.

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Evidence suggests that incretin-based dual agonist pharmacotherapy is helpful in persons with obesity. Mazdutide, a glucagon-like peptide-1 and glucagon receptor dual agonist, may have efficacy in ...

Using propensity score matching (PSM), we compared patients with obesity (body mass index [BMI] ≥30 kg/m²) and other lifestyle-associated risk factors (smoking, alcohol use, and diabetes mellitus) to ...