When you go in for a wellness exam, oftentimes the first things the medical assistant does is take your height and weight.

Body mass index (BMI) is the tool doctors use to calculate whether someone is underweight, at a healthy weight, overweight or obese. But because BMI calculations can't tell the difference between body ...

It has long been a well-established and well-documented fact that obesity — a complex, chronic disease which involves the ...

The mBCA Alpha scanner is an alternative to screenings that rely on weight and body mass index to understand the risk of ...

Johns Hopkins University researchers have found that nearly all adults identified as having obesity based on body mass index ...

A new analysis links higher triglyceride-glucose (TyG) and TyG–body mass index (TyG-BMI) levels to increased colorectal ...

A new study found more than two-thirds of Reserve and Guard troops are overweight, prompting a scathing rebuke of lax ...

A study conducted by the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, found that men with a ...

A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Tsukuba revealed that the use of a gamified sleep-tracking mobile application led to improvements in sleep parameters and a reduction in ...

A study conducted by the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, found that men with a genetic predisposition supporting higher muscle strength had a lower risk ...

Apremilast treatment in patients with psoriatic arthritis leads to favorable changes in body composition and improves disease ...

This study investigated the impact of such a gamified app on sleep parameters and body mass index (BMI). Participants who consistently used Pokémon Sleep and ASKEN for at least 90 days were ...