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Clinical obesity rates are high even among those with a body mass index value that falls within a standard range.

According to experts cited by Harvard Health Publishing, waist circumference is often a better indicator of metabolic risk ...

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Although medications with glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist activity have transformed the management of obesity and shown substantial cardiometabolic benefits, unmet needs remain.

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Could the way doctors traditionally measure obesity allow a subset of people with obesity-related health risks slip through ...

Research suggests that a waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) measurement is a better indicator of obesity than body mass index (BMI), ...

A large majority of Americans are walking around with too much body fat, nationally representative data suggests.

In particular, abdominal fat has emerged as one of the strongest predictors of future cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and ...

Over 26% of U.S. adults with a normal BMI met new criteria for clinical obesity proposed by the Lancet commission. About 78% of adults had excess adiposity if defined by using two or three abnormal ...