Waist-to-height ratio should be used in conjunction with BMI to assess overweight and obesity in children and adolescents, a ...

The prevalence of metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease, chronic kidney disease, and obstructive sleep ...

Those in favor of the classification argue that excess fat accumulation/distribution is linked to sustained and serious ...

The other day, a 45-year-old man came to the emergency with complaints of breathlessness. Though it was not a heart attack, ...

Body mass index (BMI), which is measured by taking a person’s body weight and dividing the square of their height, has long ...

Obesity advocates and health care professionals are working to educate society about this chronic disease by looking at the ...

Adults who had an above-average BMI, overweight or obesity during childhood have increased risk for developing chronic ...

Critics are once again questioning the efficacy of BMI as a tool for diagnosing obesity, suggesting that a more holistic ...

Compared to men with an average childhood BMI trajectory, risks of COPD were 7 per cent higher for men with an above-average ...

New research to be presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2025, Malaga, Spain, 11-14 May) shows that having an overweight or obesity trajectory during childhood is associated with ...

Childhood obesity is a formidable public health challenge in the US, posing a risk of various downstream health issues for ...

In the decade since, little evidence has turned up to support the theory, with a new systematic review out of Emory ...