Two newer adiposity measures incorporating waist circumference predicted periodontitis better than body mass index, reported ...

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health problems from extra weight and other measurements.

Obesity has been an ongoing struggle for many consumers, and for years, body mass index (BMI) has been the key metric health ...

Findings indicate a 12.8% 10-year diabetes risk, driven by fasting plasma glucose, age, sex, and BMI, highlighting the need ...

The number does not capture a person's muscle mass; where on their body fat is stored; or how their race, ethnicity and ...

However, this classification system assumes that weight alone is a reliable indicator of health, disregarding important ...

The way the world defines obesity has been in need of an overhaul, according to some experts, and it could be coming soon ...

“That’s why,” says Dr Naval Kishore Vikram, professor of medicine, Metabolic Research Group, AIIMS, “obesity has to be ...

A commission proposed a new definition of obesity focused on how excess fat affects the body, rather than assessing body mass ...

Sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) excise taxes were associated with reduced mean body mass index (BMI) among adults in demographic subgroups, including in young adults who consumed the most SSBs, and in ...

Intramuscular fat, contained within muscle tissue, increases the risk of serious heart disease, regardless of other risk ...