Obesity rates for Black children and adolescents are 22.4% in the decade before the pandemic and 35% in the 2 years after the ...

Irregular sleep, including later sleep timing and poor continuity, was associated with increased risk for metabolic syndrome among Black adults.

If you’ve grown up believing that a BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 is the ultimate indicator of good health, you may be surprised ...

Clinicians who work with elite college athletes and military cadets should be aware of the association between higher body ...

It’s scary to think that we may have been using a surrogate — BMI — that may not have been all that accurate over the years," ...

Medical equipment provider delivers on-demand solutions for patients with high BMIs HOUSTON, TX / ACCESS Newswire / June 25, ...

Subjects with severe obesity (n=1156) who met criteria for bariatric surgery (BMI ≥40 or ≥35 kg/m 2 with ≥2 complications of obesity) were recruited into a study examining the cardiovascular and ...

Clinicians who work with elite college athletes and military cadets should be aware of the association between higher body ...

The National Center for Health Statistics measured adults and children to see weight, height and other size trends ...

Severe obesity, defined by a body mass index (BMI) ≥35 kg/m 2, has increased 11-fold for men (2.3%) and 3-fold for women (5.0%) worldwide from 1975 to 2014,1 and is responsible for heavy burden due to ...

Obesity is a global health crisis with profound clinical and societal consequences, contributing to increased risks of chronic illness and related mortality.1 Despite being recognised as a disease by ...