Obesity contributes to more than 10% of infection-related deaths and up to 11% could be prevented by addressing obesity, ...

Severe obesity was strongly associated with a greater risk of post-infection cardiovascular disorders. Compared with youth of a healthy weight, those with severe obesity had more than double the risk ...

Last year, The Lancet helped catalyse this overdue change by recommending that BMI alone should not be used to measure obesity, a suggestion that was promptly taken up by 75 international medical ...

For decades, body mass index (BMI) has been the dominant tool for defining obesity, despite longstanding concerns that it poorly reflects individual health risk. Growing evidence suggests that the ...

In every single state, researchers expect at least 35% of adults to have a body mass index of 30 or higher, the threshold ...

Habitual plate clearing — the tendency to finish all food served on one’s plate — is generally not related to a higher body ...

Mercey Livingston is a health and wellness writer and certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach. She's written about fitness and wellness for Well+Good, Women's Health, Business Insider, and ...

Elevated body mass index (BMI) and physical inactivity are metabolic drivers of hypertension-related chronic kidney disease (HT-CKD), with elevated BMI exerting a greater impact, according to a study ...

Indians face higher diabetes and heart risks at lower body mass index (BMI) levels than Western populations.

Prepregnancy maternal underweight is associated with lower BMI in infants conceived via ART, with sex-specific elevations in ...