Obesity is a well-established risk factor for a broad spectrum of chronic diseases, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, and liver disease.

A new scoring system using common clinical parameters accurately identifies chronic liver disease patients with a ...

New body composition tests are replacing BMI as a more accurate way to assess health and fitness. Measuring muscle mass and ...

Monitoring your health begins with understanding your body composition, and one of the simplest ways to do that is by using a BMI calculator.

Introduction Reduction of milk protein content in infant formula provided during the first year of life has been shown to reduce early weight gain and obesity later in life. While rapid weight gain ...

Effective duration is a measure that tells you how sensitive bonds with embedded options are to changes in interest rates. What Is Effective Duration? Effective duration is a duration calculation for ...

Chulalongkorn Bariatric and Metabolic Institute (Chula BMI), a One-Stop Service Center for Holistic Obesity Treatment Are you obese? Find out from the BMI formula. Body mass index (BMI) = body weight ...

Find out from the BMI formula. "For those whose BMI exceeds 25, it's time to take care of their physical health," said Professor Suthep Udomsawaengsup, M.D., a bariatric surgeon and Director of Chula ...

Abstract: The body mass index (BMI) is nowadays the most used tool to evaluate obesity, involving only two anthropometric measures easy to obtain, the weight and the height (BMI=weight/height 2). The ...