Despite the tentative positive trend, obesity rates are still higher than 10 years ago, when 38 percent of adults had a BMI over 30, and more Americans are morbidly obese than ever. One in 10 ...

Background: Patients with morbid obesity have an increased risk for anxiety and depression. The "duodenal switch" is perhaps the most effective obesity surgery procedure for inducing weight loss.

Body mass index (BMI) was almost three times more likely to classify children as overweight as a waist circumference-to-height ratio, according to a new study. Published in Obesity and ...

For decades, doctors have used two numbers to determine whether a person has obesity: their weight divided by their height. The calculation, known as body mass index (BMI), has the benefit of ...

Waist-to-height ratio should be used in conjunction with BMI to assess overweight and obesity in children and adolescents, a researcher reported in a study published in Obesity and Endocrinology.

We look at a BMI, which is Body Mass Index. If it's above 30, it is considered obesity, if it's above 40, it is considered morbid obesity. I also highly recommend avoiding alcohol, narcotics ...

Obesity is associated with an increased risk ... an increased risk of VTE among morbidly obese persons receiving standard doses of the drug might become apparent. To our knowledge, the study ...