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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Obesity and increasing BMI are associated with an increased risk for primary biologic failure among patients with psoriasis, but are not significantly associated with secondary fa ...

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 ...