Later, by the 1970s, statisticians used the measurements of 7,426 “healthy men” to parse out the categories we have now, the ...

Key Lifestyle Changes Men Should Make at 30 for Better Health The review reveals that fit people, across all BMI categories, ...

Body mass index (BMI) is a measure of body fat based on your weight in relation to your height, and applies to most adult men and women aged 20 and over. For children aged 2 and over, BMI ...

It is easy to measure and calculate; no sophisticated equipment is required. By convention, an individual with a BMI of 30 or more is considered obese. This applies to both men and women. For ...

For other conditions, like type 2 diabetes, heart failure, and stroke, the effects were largely reduced but not entirely ...

A recent study by scientists at deCODE genetics, published in Nature Communications, offers new insights into how body mass ...

Table 3 shows the ORs (95% CIs) of having IOP≥18 mm Hg when comparing subjects with increased BMI to subjects with normal BMI using unadjusted and adjusted models. Men with abnormal BMI compared ...

Lowering BMI alone may reduce the risk of various obesity-related diseases, but other factors might also play a role. A new ...

A 2022 study of 1,051 men and women whose average age was 77, published in the Annals of Geriatric Medicine and Research, found that those with a BMI below 25 or above 35 had a higher risk of balance ...

New study from /Amgen highlights the importance of BMI in pathogenesis of disease, suggesting that reducing BMI alone could lower the risk of several diseases.

The Body Mass Index (BMI) helps in calculating the height-to-weight ratio of a person. The score determines if a person is at his/her healthy weight or needs to shed or gain more kilos. A BMI ...

Purpose: To assess the possibility of a relationship between body mass index (BMI) and intraocular pressure (IOP) in both men and women. Materials and Methods: A retrospective cross-sectional ...