People with pockets of fat hidden inside their muscles are at a higher risk of dying or being hospitalized from a heart attack or heart failure, regardless of their body mass index, according to ...

An international and widely supported group of experts is pushing doctors to avoid the exclusive use of BMI to decide whether someone has obesity, alongside other major changes.

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Diets high in fast food, processed red meat, and sugar-sweetened beverages and low in fruits and vegetables are associated with accelerated biological aging in young adulthood. The clustering effect ...

Education was demonstrated to be a potentially significant factor explaining racial/ethnic differences in early pregnancy ...

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Lizzo marked a major milestone in her health journey as she revealed that she had reached her "weight release goal." ...

This is a retrospective observational study. Whilst a number of potential mechanisms are suggested to explain the relationship between elevated IMAT and impaired coronary flow reserve, these were ...

people with both low and high BMI are associated with anovulatory cycles, irregular periods and hormonal imbalances, which might explain the differences in heart rate. Those of older age also had ...

Asians, non-Hispanic Blacks and Hispanics were significantly less likely than whites to use obesity-management medications to lower their weight compared with whites, new research suggests. The ...