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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Your BMI may not tell the whole story. New research suggests that measuring waist size and body fat distribution could help ...

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 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 ...

Researchers from LSU's Pennington Biomedical Research Center and collaborating institutions have found that Americans with the highest levels of obesity are undergoing fewer surgical procedures ...

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 ...