Obesity is commonly measured using the Body Mass Index (BMI), with a BMI over 30 considered obese. According to data from the World Health Organization, obesity rates have more than tripled from 5 ...

Drawing on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, among others, World Population Review compiled its rankings of states by rates of obesity, seen here on this map created by ...

If current trends persist, global adult obesity rates will rise from 43.4% in 2021 to 57.4% for men and from 46.7% to 60.3% for women by 2050.

By 2021, 93.1 million and 80.6 million individuals aged 5 to 14 and 15 to 24 years, respectively, had obesity. Global increases in overweight prevalence are forecasted to stabilize from 2022 to ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday announced its support for weight-loss drugs in adults globally. The organization plans to back GLP-1s like Wegovy and Zepbound to treat obesity in ...

Overweight people have a BMI between 25 and 30, while obesity is defined as a BMI of 30 or over, researchers said. A projected rise in obesity among people 65 or older is expected to strain health ...

A new nationwide study from Japan spanning a 14 year study period has revealed an increasing trend of overweight and obesity in patients with the incident end-stage kidney disease (ESKD).

People with pre-clinical obesity are at risk for those conditions, but have no ongoing illness, the report says. BMI has long been considered a flawed measure that can over-diagnose or ...

Obesity won’t be solely defined by BMI under new plan for diagnosis by global experts New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into ...

Obesity is estimated to affect more than 1 billion people worldwide.In the U.S., about 40% of adults have obesity, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A new map highlights U.S. states with the highest rates of overweight residents, ... and holds the fifth spot in World Population Review's obesity rankings at 39.1 percent.