A Cleveland Clinic study shows that patients with obesity and fatty liver-related cirrhosis who had bariatric (weight-loss) surgery significantly lowered their future risk of developing serious liver ...
Researchers at the, Riverside, backed by a substantial NIH grant, are pioneering a study on the unique immune responses to ...
This means that exclusively surgical treatment cannot be applied without interdisciplinary evaluation. Along the same lines, ...
The extent to which newer, incretin-based drugs for obesity improve disease outcomes via weight loss versus the direct ...
The commission recommends a shift away from relying solely on BMI to more accurately define obesity as a disease.
A commission proposed a new definition of obesity focused on how excess fat affects the body, rather than assessing body mass ...
A global commission presents a nuanced approach to defining clinical obesity as a chronic illness resulting from the effect of excess adiposity on organ and tissue function.
A report from The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission has proposed new criteria for defining and diagnosing obesity, ...
A parasitic worm infection, also known as a helminth infection, occurs when parasitic worms, or helminths, infect the body.
Gut microbiota plays a critical role in childhood obesity by influencing energy metabolism, inflammation, and appetite ...
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) affects up to 40% of the population in western countries and is one of the most ...
The Arkansas Integrative Metabolic Research Center will host Jeffrey Rathmell, a professor of pathology, microbiology and immunology from Vanderbilt University on Wednesday, Jan. 22.