CHI Mercy Health Hospital in Roseburg has seen nearly 41-thousand emergency room visits. Of those visits, hospital staff say ...

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

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

You’ve long heard doctors talk about BMI — or body mass index — and you may even know yours off the top of your head, especially if you were told your number was in the unhealthy range.

The body mass index (BMI), a weight-to-height ratio, has long been criticised as too simplistic, in part because it cannot distinguish between fat and muscle mass. Currently, anyone with a BMI of ...

heart diseases and other consequences of obesity even at lower BMI. This is because they typically have higher body fat percentages and central obesity as compared to Western counterparts,” Dr Anoop ...

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 ...

Traditionally Body Mass Index (BMI) was used to define obesity ... Issue 0 Dr Bhumika Maikhuri is a Consultant Orthodontist at Sanjeevan Hospital, Delhi. She is also working as a Correspondent and a ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Queensland-based Sarah Cox recalls that in 2018, her doctor advised her to lose weight because her body mass index (BMI) was too high, despite her feeling healthy and experiencing no physical ...