CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Last fall, the Cleveland Clinic named "bariatric surgery for diabetes" its top medical innovation of 2013. The Clinic used to pay for the surgery for employees who had uncontrolled ...
The American Medical Association announced it has adopted recommendations deemphasizing the use of body mass index as a measurement in medicine. The group now recommends considering BMI along with ...
The body mass index has been used by the medical community to identify whether someone is the right weight. It’s calculated by dividing your weight by the square of your height. But it’s actually a ...
BVI America, a subsidiary of the 3-D body and weight measurement software provider Select Research, unveiled its BVI Pro tablet app. BVI America created the app through a decade-long collaboration ...
WASHINGTON — Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty – or ESG – successfully treated obesity in a new study showing its efficacy, safety and reproducibility outside the centers that launched the procedure ...
It's time to take out the measuring tape. A new study is adding to the growing evidence that waist circumference – not just body mass index (BMI) – is a key predictor for heart disease, cancer, ...
Heart disease patients have another reason to bemoan their bellies. In a study being published this month, researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester conclude that patients with both coronary artery ...
Central obesity in normal-weight people places them at greater risk of death than does overall overweight or obesity in people without the excess abdominal fat, a new study suggests. The startling ...
It’s the latest indication that BMI alone isn’t an accurate indicator of health. For decades, medical professionals have relied on body mass index (BMI) to measure a patient’s propensity for disease ...
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