Obesity significantly impacts skin health, leading to common issues like dark patches (acanthosis nigricans) and skin tags (acrochordons), often signaling underlying metabolic problems such as insulin ...

Obesity is driving one in six deaths from a wide range of infectious diseases, new research suggests. Globally, obesity may have been a driving factor in 0.6 million out of 5.4 million deaths from ...

Obesity may be a contributing factor in more than 10% of infection-related deaths, a new study reveals. The researchers analyzed medical data from nearly 550,000 adults in Finland and the U.K. over a ...

The list of diseases and conditions complicated by obesity is a long one; it includes heart disease, cancer, diabetes and impaired wound healing, as well as skin infections. It is not always clear, ...

Scientists from University College London (UCL) have found that obese people have a 70% higher risk of hospitalization or death from infections. This was reported on February 9 by Medical Xpress ...

A prospective multicohort study suggested that obesity was associated with a higher risk of severe and fatal infections. Obesity was most strongly linked to skin and soft tissue infections and showed ...

Just over one in 10 deaths from a wide range of infectious diseases can be attributed to obesity worldwide, finds a major new study led by a University College London (UCL) researcher. People with ...

People with severe obesity have a drastically increased risk of suffering a severe illness or even death from infections, according to a new analysis of health data from more than 540,000 patients in ...

Large international cohort data reveal that excess body fat may increase susceptibility to severe infections and substantially contribute to global infection mortality, underscoring prevention as a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Naveed Sattar, professor of cardiometabolic medicine at the University of Glasgow and co-author of the new study, explained that ...