Central obesity measures of waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio appear to be more accurate and consistent indicators ...

Obesity has a brand new definition now. This new description of the lifestyle disease—which goes beyond the currently accepted BMI (body-mass index) norms— has been proposed in a new report ...

The reliance of the Cockcroft-Gault equation on weight as a key variable has reduced its accuracy in patients with obesity. Improved approaches to body-size description using LBW provide an ...

Jan. 27, 2025 — A study shows that patients with obesity and fatty liver-related cirrhosis who had bariatric (weight-loss) surgery significantly lowered their future ... Signposting Children to ...

Prescriptions of obesity management drugs (OMDs) have increased, and these increasing trends are associated with online search trends, according to a study published online Jan. 29 in JAMA Network ...

robotic surgery is an ideal application for obese and morbidly obese patients. As the rates of obesity and severe obesity continue to increase, this technology will become increasingly vital to ...

Conference call scheduled for 4:30 p.m. ET today Initiation of Phase 3 Studies for Subcutaneous VK2735 for Obesity Planned for 2Q25 Phase 2 VENTURE-Oral Dosing Trial ...

Within Novo Nordisk's comprehensive business update to investors, attention latched onto early data for an oral obesity therapy that outperformed the company’s big-selling GLP-1 agonist Wegovy ...

A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial ...

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