obesity

Lifestyle changes, including controlling obesity, smoking cessation, being physically active, controlling high blood pressure and controlling blood glucose levels can help prevent the development of heart failure.

The UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has asked doctors to be alert for patients who may be misusing obesity injections, such as Wegovy.

Risk factors such as obesity, diabetes and liver damage complicate these challenges, accelerating alcohol-related mortality.

Epigenetic markers, on the other hand, are more dynamic: environmental factors, our eating habits and the condition of our body -- such as obesity -- can change them over the course of the lifetime.

Kennedy’s largest focus of late has been on noninfectious diseases such as diabetes and cancer and their risk factors such as obesity.