Waist-to-height ratio should be used in conjunction with BMI to assess overweight and obesity in children and adolescents, a ...

The prevalence of metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease, chronic kidney disease, and obstructive sleep ...

For decades, body mass index has been the go-to metric for defining healthy weight ranges, but its usefulness as a reliable ...

Those in favor of the classification argue that excess fat accumulation/distribution is linked to sustained and serious ...

The current approach to diagnosing obesity based on body mass index ... care" that will "facilitate a rational allocation of healthcare resources and a fair and medically meaningful prioritisation ...

Obesity advocates and health care professionals are working to educate society about this chronic disease by looking at the ...

The other day, a 45-year-old man came to the emergency with complaints of breathlessness. Though it was not a heart attack, ...

Body mass index (BMI) was almost three times more likely ... this expensive device is not universally available in primary health care. It was previously reported from the same data that waist ...

Body mass index (BMI), which is measured by taking a person’s body weight and dividing the square of their height, has long ...

Adults who had an above-average BMI, overweight or obesity during childhood have increased risk for developing chronic ...

New research to be presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2025, Malaga, Spain, 11-14 May) shows that having an overweight or obesity trajectory during childhood is associated with ...

Compared to men with an average childhood BMI trajectory, risks of COPD were 7 per cent higher for men with an above-average ...