Rethinking Obesity: Hidden Risks, New Metrics, and Disease Burden Beyond BMI

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Sex- and age-dependent associations between waist-to-hip ratio and cognitive impairment: a cross-sectional study of rural adults aged 40 years and older in northwestern China

Associations of six adiposity indices with incident back pain and the mediating role of the triglyceride-glucose index: prospective findings from the UK biobank

The lancet commission obesity categories, excess adiposity, and BMI discordance in urban Chinese adults: a cross-sectional survey in Beijing

Association of annual percentage changes in anthropometric indices with all-cause mortality: a 14-year longitudinal study of older US adults

Association between the skeletal muscle-to-visceral fat area ratio and liver fibrosis risk in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: a cross-sectional study

Burden of metabolic diseases in mainland China from 1990 to 2021: results from the global burden of disease study 2021

Adherence to a diet with higher protein quality significantly reduces the risk of lung cancer: results from a population-based prospective study

Adult weight change across the life course and cardiovascular disease prevalence and mortality: a population-based study

Association of age, BMI and their interaction with thyroid nodules in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a cross-sectional study

Association analysis of weight-adjusted waist index with hypertension and its subtypes

Life-course BMI trajectories and long-term weight gain in relation to hepatic steatosis in a rural community-based cohort in Southwest China

Dose–response association between metabolic syndrome component count and metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease, and independent graded association of visceral fat area: a cross-sectional study in a health-checkup population

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