Among patients with preclinical obesity, stronger grip strength was associated with reduced risk for progression to ...

According to research from Mass General Brigham, applying updated obesity criteria from The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology ...

Adding waist size to BMI raises U.S. obesity rates from 42.9% to 68.6%, according to a major JAMA Network Open study.

By applying this new framework to a test group of more than 300,000 patients, researchers found that the number of obese ...

New research shows that substantially more Americans would qualify as being obese using new diagnostic criteria released this ...

A new definition of obesity endorsed by 76 health organizations could dramatically increase the number of Americans ...

A new definition of obesity could dramatically increase the number of Americans considered obese. Under the new definition, ...

Neck size also matters as much as your Body Mass Index. Find out how to measure neck circumference and know what is the ...

Objective Certain leading medical organisations are considering alternatives to the Body Mass Index (BMI) as a predictor of the risk for non-communicable chronic disease (NCD) or death. Our objective ...

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A new study from the University of Waterloo suggested that Body Mass Index, long used as a standard measure of health, can be ...