Humans with relatively more fat hidden in and around their muscles face a higher risk of death or hospitalization from heart ...

New research published in the European Heart Journal reveals that 'muscle fat' around muscles can increase the risk of death ...

Body composition refers to the percentages body fat, bone, and lean tissue mass (basically, the muscle, organs, water, and ...

With a healthy BMI, a good diet and healthy habits, Gail had an unlikely profile for a heart attack - which meant she was not ...

Body-weight cycling (also known as yo-yo dieting) has been shown to significantly increase the risk of kidney disease in ...

Limitations to the study included a lack of serum urate measurements and the potential for residual confounding; people's ...

BMI, if used, should just be a screening tool ... an obesity medicine physician scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. It’s up to individual doctors ...

“Current BMI-based measures of obesity can both underestimate ... Obesity and Cholesterol Foundation (N-DOC), Fortis C-DOC Hospital, and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS ...

BM Birla Heart Hospital told Financial Express.com. One of the primary limitations of the BMI is its inability to distinguish between the fat mass and the lean muscle mass. People with normal BMI ...

A team led by Viviany Taqueti, director of the Cardiac Stress Laboratory at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital ... terms of their body mass index, or BMI. “Compared to subcutaneous fat ...

Fortis Hospital, Shalimar Bagh. "BMI does not accurately reflect body weight. Actually. it doesn’t differentiate between lean body mass and body fat. If you have a high muscle mass your weight ...