New research suggests that measures of excess weight around the waist (central obesity or visceral fat) may increase the risk ...
Background Metabolic-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is a prevalent chronic liver disease affecting approximately ...
MOUNJARO pens will be shrunk from April to try and stop patients squeezing out a “golden” fifth dose after the four ...
Adiposity influences reproductive function via endocrine and immune pathways. The association between body mass index (BMI) and anti−Müllerian hormone (AMH) in endometriosis is uncertain, and BMI may ...
Objective This study aims to develop a methodology to retrieve, harmonise and evaluate the completeness of national body mass index (BMI) data from linked electronic health record (EHR) sources to ...
Objectives To estimate the shape of the causal relationship between body mass index (BMI) and mortality risk in a Mendelian randomisation framework. Design Mendelian randomisation analyses of two ...
Summary: A growing number of researchers are calling for the end of BMI as a measure of health, arguing it’s outdated, misleading, and rooted in discrimination. The metric, a simple weight-to-height ...
1 Department of Human Sciences, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, USA. 2 Department of Health and Human Performance, University of Houston, Houston, USA. 3 Department of Psychological, Health ...
Study Rundown: Body mass index (BMI) is a poor standalone measure of excess adiposity, and although waist circumference (WC) can effectively measure adiposity, the recommended WC thresholds fail to ...