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 ...

Over the last three decades, differences in unhealthy cholesterol levels and blood pressure between older adults with obesity ...

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 ...

National data show increasing rates of obesity-related organ dysfunction ...

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 ...

For those who think, "I'm fine because my BMI is normal," there is something you should know. Research results show that even ...

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 ...

A new systematic review and meta-analysis finds that vitamin D supplementation safely raises serum vitamin D levels in ...

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 ...

Excess weight and obesity are considered serious threats to overall health. Individuals carrying excess weight face an ...