In the past, type 2 diabetes was most often seen in older adults. Now, it’s becoming increasingly common in teens and children due to dietary factors, rates of obesity, and low levels of ...

BMI has long been falling out of favor. When the American Medical Association urged downgrading BMI in 2023, it blamed its ...

Childhood maltreatment — especially physical abuse and neglect — was associated with increased risks for adulthood obesity and type 2 diabetes.

Diabetes is a leading cause of global mortality and disability, and its economic burden is substantial. This Review focuses on type 2 diabetes, which makes up 90–95% of all diabetes cases. Type 2 ...

Obesity is currently defined using a person's body mass index, or BMI. This is calculated as weight (in kilograms) divided by ...

As obesity experts say more than 15 million Birtons are being wrongly labelled overweight and propose a radical overhaul of ...

A study found a connection between an earlier diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes and a heightened risk of developing dementia, particularly for individuals with obesity. The findings, published Nov. 13 in ...

Learn the connection between obesity and juvenile type 1 diabetes and how excess weight can complicate the management of this ...

Diabetes has long been lumped into two categories — Type 1, which often appears in childhood, or Type 2, which is associated with obesity and typically develops later in life. But scientists have ...

Biomea Fusion (BMEA) announced the company will become a diabetes and obesity medicines company. Based on the most recent clinical trial ...

Obesity: Even modest weight loss can give several health benefits like improving blood sugar levels, lowering the risk of ...