Type 2 diabetes is a disease that involves your blood glucose (also known as blood sugar) being too high, and obesity is a major risk factor that can make you more likely to develop it. “Insulin ...

Obesity treatment can include GLP-1 medications, non-surgical procedures such as ESG stomach tightening and short-term gastric balloons, and traditional bariatric surgery. Here’s an alarming fact: 42% ...

It might seem like semantics. But whether a health condition qualifies as a disease can have a huge impact on patient experiences and treatment options.

Although obesity has been recognized as a disease by the World Health Organization (WHO) since 1948, its identity as a disease may not be widely perceived the same way as other health conditions. Like ...

Obesity was “strongly” associated with 16 major health conditions, with an increasing prevalence across body mass index (BMI) categories in most cases, a new longitudinal cohort study revealed. “The ...

As drugmakers race to join the obesity drug market ignited by the approval of Wegovy and Zepbound, they’re not just competing on their drugs’ weight loss effects. They’re also competing on their ...

Dr. Mehmet Oz backs GLP-1 weight loss medication but stresses that diet and exercise remain essential, calling obesity the ...

I N THE SPACE of less than a decade, medicine acquired a means of doing what millennia of diets and exhortation could not. A ...

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India plans to replace BMI with waist-to-hip ratio in public hospitals, with nearly 1 million ASHA workers helping identify ...