Get a load of this — you may be obese after all! About 40% of US adults — more than 100 million Americans — are considered ...

“The whole goal of this is to get a more precise definition so that we are targeting the people who actually need the help most,” Dr. David Cummings, a University of Washington obesity expert ...

Discover how smoking during pregnancy may increase childhood obesity risk, according to new research from Washington State ...

“The whole goal of this is to get a more precise definition so that we are targeting the people who actually need the help most,” said Dr. David Cummings, an obesity expert at the University ...

To make the new forecasts, researchers at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington created a model to determine overweight and obesity trends using historic ...

The study found body mass index (BMI) patterns that could predict obesity, with findings published in Jama Network Open.

Experts have called for urgent action to prevent obesity from becoming the global norm. By 2050, ... (IHME), University of Washington in Seattle, United States, ...

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.

When a team of scientists led by a Washington State University researcher examined the way that more than 9,400 children grew from toddlers to ...

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 ...

“The whole goal of this is to get a more precise definition so that we are targeting the people who actually need the help most,” said Dr. David Cummings, an obesity expert at the University ...