New research reveals that excess weight is linked to an especially high risk of developing breast cancer in postmenopausal ...

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Body fat percentage, waist circumference both significantly associated with 15-year all-cause mortality, heart disease mortality.

A new cross-cultural study involving participants from China, Lithuania, and the United Kingdom found that men with a body ...

Body weight significantly influenced right heart function and survival in pulmonary arterial hypertension, with both extremes ...

Body mass index (BMI) may not be the most accurate predictor of death risk. A new study from the University of Florida found ...

The higher a person’s body mass index (BMI), the higher their risk for complications after bariatric surgery, such as higher rates of emergency department visits and readmissions, according to a study ...

Fat tissue secretes hormones known as adipokines. Patients with obesity have a larger amount of leptin than a normal ...

A new study reports that measurements that detect body fat are a more accurate predictor of mortality risk than body mass ...

Medical experts, including sports physicians from Medilux, emphasize that BMI should never be treated as a target in ...

Body mass index, or BMI for short, is a measure of body weight based on your height. For decades, BMI has been a way to measure whether someone is at a healthy weight. In general, people are ...

Results show that body fat analysis did indeed predict people’s risk of death from any cause and, specifically, for heart ...