Korea's BMI obesity threshold should be raised to 27 amid changes in body types, health patterns, experts say. Read more at ...

There is reason to be suspect about the benefit of weight loss for many people. What we define as “overweight” (a BMI between ...

Turner, F, Powell, SG, Al-Lamee, H, Gadhvi, A, Palmer, E, Drakeley, A, Sprung, VS, Hapangama, D and Tempest, N (2024) Impact ...

The Korea Institute of Health Insurance announced that it is appropriate to raise the current body mass index of 25 Koreans to 27 or higher after analyzing the health examination data of 8.47 million ...

Slightly overweight stroke survivors have a lower risk of sustaining disabilities. The Kobe University finding adds another ...

The study included 221 individuals ages 65 and older who were taking vitamin D supplements. They were all classified as ...

SAN ANTONIO -- Research presented at the ObesityWeek annual meeting included studies on rationing of prescription medications ...

A recent study published in the Alzheimer's-related journal Alzheimer's Research & Therapy found that relatively healthy ...

A study by the University of Pennsylvania and researchers from 26 U.S. children's hospitals has linked elevated body mass index (BMI) to a significantly higher risk of developing post-acute sequelae ...

The following is a summary of “Echocardiographic Assessment of Cardiac Remodeling According to Obesity Class,” published in the November 2024 issue of Cardiology by Prajapati et al. Obesity is linked ...

For children with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, elevated body mass index (BMI) is ...

In pursuit of a new and more accurate measure, body roundness index (BRI) has entered the chat with some splashy new studies to back it (more on that in a second). So what is BRI and is it truly ...