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

Nearly all U.S. adults with obesity as diagnosed by BMI also have an elevated waist circumference or excess body fat, ...

Among the 2,225 adults in the study, all under 60 years of age, 39.7% had obesity as defined only by higher BMI, while 39.1% ...

A recent study shows that traditional insulin resistance measures such as HOMA-IR are more predictive of insulin resistance ...

In observance of World Liver Day 2025, the Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Shri Jagat Prakash Nadda, yesterday ...

Why is India's pot belly more than just a joke now? It's linked to rising abdominal obesity, diabetes, and heart disease.

While the commission didn't toss out BMI completely, it recommended clinicians pair it with at least one additional anthropometric measure -- like waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio ...

Sticking to an exercise routine is a challenge many people face. But a research team is using machine learning to uncover what keeps individuals committed to their workouts.

A team of researchers at the University of Mississippi has harnessed the power of machine learning to identify the strongest ...

There are things in medical science that have been passed around so often that they’ve started sounding like absolute truths.