Presentations highlight clinically meaningful reductions in BMI in patients with acquired hypothalamic obesity - ...

A new study finds four factors that may make it more likely for some people to experience successful weight loss from using ...

After menopause, individuals with cardiovascular disease and weight gain may face a higher risk of breast cancer, recent ...

Stratifying body mass index (BMI) categories by waist circumference (WC) thresholds improves mortality risk prediction in ...

Researchers have mapped human fat tissue at single-cell resolution, uncovering how obesity alters cellular stress, ...

While a healthy lifestyle naturally has important benefits, yet seeking weight loss alone might not give an adequate picture ...

Objectives This study aimed to identify the perceptions of university students of overweight and obesity using the health belief model (HBM) and to analyse their association with the body mass index ...

Now new, highly sensitive lab tests can measure troponin at much lower levels. This development enabled Johns Hopkins researchers to measure the troponin levels as well as body mass index (BMI) in ...

HealthDay News — The European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO) framework may offer a more sensitive measure of obesity than traditional body mass index (BMI), according to a study published ...

• Future studies should report their results by age, gender, race/ethnicity; include the full data; include adverse events and other outcomes; control for both diet and physical activity in their ...