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

• Special considerations for the adolescent with obesity: An obesity medicine association (OMA) clinical practice statement (CPS) 2024

• Diagnosis, physiological mechanisms, risk factors, treatment and prevention of obesity: A brief commentary

• Patients experience with preoperative use of anti-obesity medications and associations with bariatric surgery expectations

• 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

• 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

• Social, cultural and ethnic determinants of obesity: from pathogenesis to treatment

• Adipose ZFP36 protects against diet-induced obesity and insulin resistance

• Unraveling molecular interconnections and identifying potential therapeutic targets of significance in obesity-cancer link

• Can brain neurons change identity? Lessons from obesity

• Altered body composition in obesity: Prevalence, associated factors and comparison of two methods

• Life’s Essential 8 and Mortality in US Adults With Obesity: A Cohort Study

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

• The World Health Organization has collected facts around obesity, available at this link