Celebrating World Obesity Day 2025

Elsevier empowers you with knowledge and valuable information to study, diagnose, and care for patients with obesity. On this World Obesity Day 2025 we present some of the cutting-edge research published in our journals.

Enjoy free access to these articles.

• The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission Definition and diagnostic criteria of clinical obesity opens in new tab/window

• Special considerations for the adolescent with obesity: An obesity medicine association (OMA) clinical practice statement (CPS) 2024  opens in new tab/window

• Diagnosis, physiological mechanisms, risk factors, treatment and prevention of obesity: A brief commentary  opens in new tab/window

• Patients experience with preoperative use of anti-obesity medications and associations with bariatric surgery expectations  opens in new tab/window

• Effects of intermittently scanned continuous glucose monitoring on body weight and glycemic variability in overweight individuals with impaired glucose tolerance or mild diabetes: A pilot randomized controlled trial  opens in new tab/window

• National-level and state-level prevalence of overweight and obesity among children, adolescents, and adults in the USA, 1990–2021, and forecasts up to 2050  opens in new tab/window

• Social, cultural and ethnic determinants of obesity: from pathogenesis to treatment  opens in new tab/window

• Adipose ZFP36 protects against diet-induced obesity and insulin resistance  opens in new tab/window

• Unraveling molecular interconnections and identifying potential therapeutic targets of significance in obesity-cancer link  opens in new tab/window

• Can brain neurons change identity? Lessons from obesity  opens in new tab/window

• Altered body composition in obesity: Prevalence, associated factors and comparison of two methods  opens in new tab/window

• Life’s Essential 8 and Mortality in US Adults With Obesity: A Cohort Study  opens in new tab/window

• Risk stratification using magnetic resonance imaging-derived, personalized z-scores of visceral adipose tissue, subcutaneous adipose tissue, and liver fat in persons with obesity opens in new tab/window

• The World Health Organization has collected facts around obesity, available at this link  opens in new tab/window