A new study suggests your weight-to-height ratio may reveal heart disease risk more accurately than BMI. Subjects with larger ...

The Yale team defined BMI-defined obesity using well-established threshold set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatric ...

The research identified a distinct subtype of diabetes seen in Indians who, despite low body weight, suffer from both insulin ...

The prevalence of overweight and obesity has reached pandemic proportions, affecting more than 1 billion people worldwide; it ...

Greater waist circumference reduction at week 20 linked to lower subsequent MACE risk for those receiving semaglutide.

The prevalence of body mass index (BMI)-defined obesity (BDO) among US youth aged 8 to 19 years closely mirrored that of BDO with excess adiposity across age, sex, and race and ethnicity, according to ...

The ratio of a person's waist measurement compared to their height is more reliable than body mass index (BMI) at predicting ...