A narrative review found obesity independently worsens psoriasis severity and blunts response to fixed-dose biologics, prompting calls for weight-adapted treatment selection.
A new study reveals a major gap in obesity care and highlights opportunities for physicians to better support patients' long-term health.
But data have started to emerge demonstrating that an overlooked but equal driver: the father, whose genetics, habits, and environment shape child obesity risk from preconception to postconception and .
Around seven million more adults are living with obesity than would have been if obesity rates had stayed the same as 1993.
The trial will assess the tolerability and safety of single ascending doses of NBIP-'1968 in overweight or obese adults.
Adults with elevated BMI in the US and Japan remain underdiagnosed for obesity, even as interrelated disease rates stay high, according to a large observational study.
Obesity treatment can include GLP-1 medications, non-surgical procedures such as ESG stomach tightening and short-term gastric balloons, and traditional bariatric surgery.
A new approach to defining obesity could help physicians better determine which patients need more intensive treatment by focusing on the effects of excess adiposity on organs and tissues rather than .
Global obesity headlines almost always point in one direction: rising numbers, ballooning health costs, and countries where more than a third of adults now qualify as obese.
Obesity and excess adiposity are major public health problems in China and Asia,1 but recognition and treatment have been constrained by BMI thresholds defining obesity derived from standards defined .
India’s obesity-care market is set to rise as demand for treatment increases.
Ji Linong, executive president of the China Obesity Congress and professor at Peking University People's Hospital, delivers a speech at the 2026 China Obesity Congress in Beijing on Aug 8.