BMI is a person's weight relative to their height. To calculate it using pounds and inches, divide your weight by your height in inches, then divide that number by your height in inches again, then ...

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 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 ...

At the AIIMS Obesity Summit, experts gave an insightful peek into the complexity of obesity as a disease and how to manage it in the era of GLP-1 medications.

How to interpret the new guidelinesIn the 2025 revised heart failure treatment guidelines, obesity has been newly added 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 ...

Obesity and overweight are costing European economies billions of euros every year, with the burden equivalent to what some ...

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 ...