People with severe obesity have a drastically increased risk of suffering a severe illness or even death from infections, according to a new analysis of health data from more than 540,000 patients in ...

People who were overweight as children but achieve a normal weight by young adulthood appear to have a long-term risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) similar to what’s seen in people who were never ...

Being overweight doesn’t just make people more susceptible to chronic illnesses such as heart disease and diabetes—it might also increase their risk of severe influenza and other infections, a new ...

These new findings by Finiish scientists are based on 925 bacterial, viral, parasitic and fungal infectious diseases.

A new study in JAMA Internal Medicine documents how much regular physical exercise can affect the risk of more than two dozen cancers ...

New data reveals rising abdominal obesity in India, with visceral fat increasing risks of type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and ...

Around 60% of Staffordshire residents are overweight or obese, with one in four children classed as overweight by reception age and more than one in 10 obese ...