In the past, type 2 diabetes was most often seen in older adults. Now, it’s becoming increasingly common in teens and children due to dietary factors, rates of obesity, and low levels of ...

Diabetes is a leading cause of global mortality and disability, and its economic burden is substantial. This Review focuses on type 2 diabetes, which makes up 90–95% of all diabetes cases. Type 2 ...

Childhood maltreatment — especially physical abuse and neglect — was associated with increased risks for adulthood obesity and type 2 diabetes.

BMI has long been falling out of favor. When the American Medical Association urged downgrading BMI in 2023, it blamed its ...

Learn the connection between obesity and juvenile type 1 diabetes and how excess weight can complicate the management of this ...

A more comprehensive multiethnic genetic risk score strongly predicted new cases of type 2 diabetes, including for people ...

Researchers from Kumamoto University have identified a liver-derived protein, serine protease inhibitor A1 (SerpinA1), as a ...

BMI falls short as a way to measure obesity. Doctors need to also determine whether body fat harms a person's health.

While obesity is often thought of as excessive weight gain, this condition can also lead to severe physiological ...

Biomea Fusion (BMEA) announced the company will become a diabetes and obesity medicines company. Based on the most recent clinical trial ...

Diabetes has long been lumped into two categories—type 1, which often appears in childhood, or type 2, which is associated ...

Icovamenib & BMF-650 (oral small molecule GLP-1) are the cornerstones of the metabolic franchiseBiomea preparing icovamenib for late-stage ...