Centered Thinking Weight-centric approaches to health have dominated medical practice for decades, but the consequences are ...

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

A U-shaped relationship was found between body mass index and in-hospital mortality among critically ill cardiac surgery ...

New body composition tests are replacing BMI as a more accurate way to assess health and fitness. Measuring muscle mass and ...

While high BMI is a well-established risk factor for these cancers, the global, regional, and national burden attributable to high BMI remains underexplored. To address this, the researchers ...

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

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 ...

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

Liz Sturgiss receives funding from National Health and Medical Research Council, The The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) Foundation, Diabetes Australia, Victorian Health ...

As new Statistics Canada data reveals that two-thirds of Canadians are considered overweight or obese, researchers are urging the public and policymakers to rethink how we define and measure ...

Background: Existing research in personality traits provides evidence of associations between Conscientiousness, Neuroticism and Body Mass Index (BMI), with a growing interest in the concept of ...