As academic director for Duke University's corporate education business, Cheryl Stokes traveled the globe. Doing so while 4 months pregnant meant enduring more discomfort than usual.

After adjusting for smoking and excluding the first 5 years, the paradox disappeared (HR 1.046, 95% CI 1.044–1.047 for overweight; HR 1.122, 95% CI 1.120–1.124 for obesity class I). The paradox was ...

Progress in assessing cardiovascular risk and identifying early prevention opportunities, improvements in treating heart failure, new therapies for bleeding strokes, strategies for reducing the ...

However, this paradox vanished upon adjustments for smoking and exclusion of the initial 5-year follow-up period (HR 1.046, 95% CI 1.044–1.047 for overweight; HR 1.122, 95% CI 1.120–1.124 for obesity ...

Given her 1.7-meter height, her body mass index (BMI) -- a standard ratio relating weight to height -- was far above the level of 30 that the World Health Organization considers the threshold of ...

16 in the New England Journal of Medicine to coincide with the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2024, held from Nov. 16 to 18 in Chicago. Milton Packer, M.D., from the Baylor University ...

18 in JAMA Cardiology to coincide with the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2024, held from Nov. 16 to 18 in Chicago. The researchers found that semaglutide was indicated for an ...

The purpose of this project's design, development, and structure is to create an end-to-end Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) lifecycle to classify an individual's level of obesity based on their ...

The rate of deaths from ischemic heart disease related to obesity nearly tripled in ... The findings were to be presented at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions in Chicago.

The rate of deaths from ischemic heart disease related to obesity nearly tripled in the U.S. over a two-decade span, according to new research. The rate for men more than tripled.

Obesity is the most common chronic disease in childhood. One in five children in the U. S. is overweight or obese. And that number continues to rise. Children with obesity have several weight ...