A multinational team of researchers has discovered that over 20% of adults with a normal BMI range experience levels of abdominal obesity that puts them at higher risk of hypertension, diabetes, high ...

A normal BMI may not always mean good health. Dr Niraj Kumar explains why abdominal fat, waist circumference and metabolic ...

Higher maternal BMI in early pregnancy is associated with increased MS risk in offspring, adding to evidence that ...

A large proportion of the population has abdominal obesity despite a normal BMI, and these individuals are at increased cardiometabolic risk, two new studies found. “Individuals with normal BMI but ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Indians tend to develop obesity-related complications at lower body mass index (BMI) levels and at a younger age.