A large study published in The Lancet Regional Health – Americas shows that waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) is a stronger and ...

The Yale team defined BMI-defined obesity using well-established threshold set by the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Research reveals sex-based differences in diet's impact on metabolism, highlighting plant proteins for men and moderate wine ...

After adjusting for other heart disease risk factors, like BMI (body mass index) and smoking, the researchers found a ...

The obesity rate in the U.S. has seen a marked decline over the last three years, as the share of Americans who report using ...

New research reveals that one in five people with normal BMIs have hidden abdominal obesity, facing 29% higher blood pressure ...

Summary: A growing number of researchers are calling for the end of BMI as a measure of health, arguing it’s outdated, misleading, and rooted in discrimination. The metric, a simple weight-to-height ...

Background: Kidney stone incidence and recurrence are increasing, which poses significant health problems. The Advanced Lung Cancer Inflammation Index (ALI) combines body mass index (BMI), albumin, ...

For the lowest vs highest BMI category, the rate of complications increased by an average of 5.56%, and serious occurrences rose 3.21%. HealthDay News — The higher a person’s body mass index (BMI), ...

Body mass index (BMI) is a rough proxy for body composition widely used to predict a person's risk of poor health outcomes, including early death — but BMI is an unreliable metric that does not ...