At the AIIMS Obesity Summit, experts gave an insightful peek into the complexity of obesity as a disease and how to manage it ...

Over 20% of adults with normal BMI have abdominal obesity, increasing their risk of hypertension, diabetes, high total cholesterol, and elevated triglycerides. Normal-weight abdominal obesity is ...

LOS ANGELES — Could the way doctors traditionally measure obesity allow a subset of people with obesity-related health risks slip through the cracks? Medical experts have typically calculated obesity ...

For decades, one number has played an outsized role in determining whether your weight is considered healthy or not: your body mass index, or BMI. The calculation is simple, and the resulting number ...

In several high-income countries including England and the USA, adults over 40 years old with obesity now have blood pressure and unhealthy cholesterol levels approaching, or healthier than, people ...

A new study has shed light on another measurement that could be more beneficial ...

Firstpost brings out an expert’s view on the growing link between obesity and cancer, how excess body fat may increase cancer risk, why BMI alone may not tell the full story, and what people can do to ...

Obesity during early childhood is strongly linked to obesity by adolescence, whereas overweight carries a far smaller risk for progression — even after a recent BMI rise from normal weight.

Obesity and sedentary behavior were each independently associated with increased odds of chronic pain, especially in older adults, with no clear multiplicative interaction between BMI and physical ...

Doctors fear that patients with a BMI over 30 could miss the opportunity for medical treatment, limiting preventive action ...

India, July 3 -- Differences in unhealthy cholesterol levels and blood pressure between older adults with obesity and those with a normal Body Mass Index (BMI) have narrowed-or even disappeared-in ...