Q: Can you explain how what you eat changes your resistance to or risk for chronic conditions like heart disease or cancer? — ...

Is obesity a risk factor or a disease? This debate shapes treatments, policies, and eating disorder care. Explore its impact ...

Background Iron deficiency (ID) is common in patients with atrial fibrillation/flutter (AF), but its prognostic implications and optimal diagnostic criteria, particularly in those with and without ...

One of the inadequacies of using body mass index (BMI) as a predictive factor is that “current BMI-based measures of obesity can both underestimate and overestimate” a persons ...

Dr. Aseem Malhotra, a cardiologist and public health campaigner based in London, says Americans' foods are fueling chronic diseases. He shares his warnings and tips with Fox News Digital.

Several risk tools can accurately predict individual baseline risks of adverse events in people with chronic kidney disease. Here, the authors examine methods of assessing risk and discuss risk ...

Depression is a mental health condition that causes a chronic feeling of emptiness, sadness, or inability to feel pleasure that may appear to happen for no clear reason. Depression is the leading ...

Learn More How COPD Is Diagnosed What does COPD stand for? COPD stands for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. It is a general term that includes various progressive lung diseases, most commonly ...

“Obesity is defined as a complex, chronic disease characterized by an excessive ... Adopting the commission's obesity definition could help spark more open conversations with patients about ...

A newly diagnosed illness can also be labeled chronic if there is no expectation of a cure; arthritis is one such example. Some extend the definition to include developmental, functional, or visual ...

Developing a robust approach to mitigating the current opioid crisis in the USA will require translating novel evidence-based, neuroscience-informed treatments into clinical care and public policy.