Objective To explore associations between maternal body mass index (BMI) in early pregnancy and childhood infections. Design ...

Body mass index (BMI) is a widely-used screening tool to estimate body fat using height and weight. It categorizes people as ...

Researchers at Mayo Clinic are harnessing the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and an advanced 3D body-volume scanner to ...

The following is a summary of “Adverse Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients With Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Obesity: Metabolic Surgery vs Usual Care,” published in the September 2024 issue of ...

Cafestol may aid in reducing body weight and visceral fat, but its impact on insulin sensitivity and glucose tolerance ...

Extreme overvalued beliefs are often shared by others in depraved online subcultures. Proximal warning behaviors and distal ...

"Rounder" participants were 163 percent more likely to develop heart disease in a Chinese study of adults over the age of 45.

"Body roundness" could be a better measure than BMI at predicting how excess weight might affect a person's heart health, a ...

A new metric called Body Roundness Index (BRI) is emerging as a more accurate measure of health risks compared to the ...

Having a high body roundness index (BRI) over a 6-year period was associated with an increased risk of developing ...

BRI is an abdominal obesity-related index that combines waist circumference and height, reflecting the proportion of abdominal and visceral fat. In contrast, body mass index (BMI) only measures weight ...