Researchers from Duke University, supported by a grant for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), studied leptin-deficient mice to determine the role of obesity in developing knee osteoarthritis ...

After Dr Ranjit Singh, senior consultant at Sifti Hospital Amritsar operated Balbir Singh from Jalandhar, he proved once ...

The 18 diagnostics the commissioners have lit on include breathlessness, obesity-induced heart failure, knee or hip pain, and obesity-driven signs of dysfunction in many other organs, such as the ...

Background: Obesity is a risk factor for knee arthritis. Total knee arthroplasty is the definitive surgical treatment of this disease. Therefore, a high percentage of subjects treated are overweight.

The conditions include breathlessness, heart failure, hip or knee pain, metabolic abnormalities and poorly functioning organs. Their condition would be called clinical obesity. The group said ...

liver or kidney disease or chronic severe knee or hip pain. These people would be eligible for treatments, including diet and exercise interventions and obesity medications. People with pre ...

The criteria for diagnosing clinical obesity included heart, liver or breathing problems, high cholesterol, sleep apnoea, hip, knee or feet pain or other problems that affect people’s daily lives.

Do people with obesity have an illness? A panel of global health experts looking at this controversial question announced Wednesday that the definition of obesity should be split into two categories - ...