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A recent study finds that much of the cardiovascular disease seen in severely overweight people is driven by more than diabetes and high blood pressure.

In a large California health care system, the contemporary burden of obesity varied substantially across disaggregated Asian ...

Adults with obesity were more likely to achieve a 10% or greater weight loss at 1 year if they continued using their ...

The European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO) framework may offer a more sensitive measure of obesity than traditional body mass index (BMI).

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