For years, medical experts have defined obesity primarily based on body mass index, which measures stored fat by calculating height and weight, to determine a person’s health risks. Major public ...

Higher maternal BMI before pregnancy is linked to increased risks of epilepsy and intellectual disability in young children, ...

New criteria that put greater emphasis on body composition to diagnose obesity show greater prevalence of the disease in the ...

Is obesity a disease or a risk factor for disease? In medical circles – and outside of them – the question is contentious, with supporters on either side. In a newly published report, the Global ...

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 ...

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Researchers have identified obesity hypoventilation syndrome (OHS) in a small but clinically relevant number of patients who ...

Adolescents who achieved a BMI reduction of at least 10% at 26 weeks with a reduced-calorie diet had significant decreases in ...

A recent case-control study reveals that increased BMI and tobacco use are independently associated with increased odds of a ...

Obesity severity is incrementally associated with a broad range of cardiometabolic and renal disease burden, as discovered by ...