In medically indicated weight loss, attention is typically focused on the associated health benefits. However, recent ...

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center scientists found that activating fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) ...

Obesity plays a crucial role in how severely blood vessels are damaged—and this depends on where excessive fat accumulates in ...

A hormone produced in the gut, FGF19, has been shown to act directly on the brain to boost energy expenditure, burn fat and ...

An article published in the journal Nature Metabolism presents an experimental drug that stimulates adipose tissue cells to ...

Higher body fat, especially android fat, BMI, and waist size, is linked to stress urinary incontinence in midlife women, but ...

Dr. Imran Siddiqui from the Orthobiologics Research Initiative joined Good Morning Washington to spotlight a new clinical ...

Obesity, defined by a BMI over 30, significantly impacts dermatological health due to excess adipose tissue's endocrine ...

Researchers found that lower lean muscle mass and higher intermuscular adipose tissue acted as imaging-visible markers that ...