Obesity severity is incrementally associated with a broad range of cardiometabolic and renal disease burden, as discovered by researchers at Pennington Biomedical Research Center. Recently published in Obesity, the paper “Association of Obesity Severity with Cardiometabolic and Renal Disease Burden in the United States,” explored the relationship through a cross-sectional study of data from the U.S. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey.