Weight gain during menopause is common, with abdominal obesity being especially common and unhealthy. A new study based on data from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) has found that ...

A major study finds teens with abdominal obesity have enlarged brain areas linked to learning and emotion, raising concerns that excess weight and inequality may disrupt cognitive development and ...

Your BMI can be normal, but you still may be at risk of metabolic ailments. Find out the difference between visceral and subcutaneous fat ...

Boehringer Ingelheim said its experimental obesity drug survodutide significantly reduced harmful abdominal and liver fat in ...

—A South Korean cohort study established that abdominal obesity showed a more robust, dose-dependent association with migraine risk than BMI. A large-scale prospective cohort study from South Korea ...

The harmful combination of abdominal obesity and reduced muscle strength, also known as sarcopenic obesity, is already present in primary school children. This is shown by a new study among eight-year ...

New research being presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Malaga, Spain (11-14 May), reveals that 3- to 4- year olds in rural areas are more likely to be living with overweight ...