Imagine trying to work out if you are dangerously overweight without once hopping on to the bathroom scales. That's what a new method for determining body size aims to do.

For other conditions, like type 2 diabetes, heart failure, and stroke, the effects were largely reduced but not entirely explained by BMI. The study found similar patterns in men and women ...

Insulin Resistance May Be Important Risk Factor for Most Common Heart Valve DiseaseA large population study of men over 45 ...

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.

REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Nov. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- New study from deCODE genetics ... but not entirely explained by BMI. The study found similar patterns in men and women, although there were ...

Height and weight measures of the participants, adjusted for age and sex and then averaged across multiple measurements, were used to calculate the BMI. The researchers selected 665 independent ...