While a healthy lifestyle naturally has important benefits, yet seeking weight loss alone might not give an adequate picture ...

Objectives This study aimed to identify the perceptions of university students of overweight and obesity using the health belief model (HBM) and to analyse their association with the body mass index ...

HealthDay News — The European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO) framework may offer a more sensitive measure of obesity than traditional body mass index (BMI), according to a study published ...

To improve access to care, many professional organizations have advocated for classifying obesity as a disease. However, the ...

Obesity was significantly more prevalent in Black and Hispanic children and adolescents compared with their non-Hispanic White peers and was potentially exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, a study ...

As per a prospective cohort study, waist circumference along with BMI modestly improves the prediction of which postmenopausal women are at a higher risk for premature death.

The most prevalent complications among newly identified people with obesity were hypertension, arthritis, diabetes, and ...

Obesity is defined by chronic low-grade inflammation in the body. Fat cells, particularly dysfunctional ones, release ...

A new University of Florida Health study shows that body mass index, or BMI — commonly used to measure obesity and health ...

A new study compares body mass index (BMI) with body fat percentage and finds the latter is far more reliable in predicting ...