Kent County's first Childhood Obesity Surveillance Report reveals 40% of local children are overweight or obese.

Here’s what to know about body composition numbers and what these metrics mean for your health and performance.

Association between Modified Cardiometabolic Index and Incident Cardiovascular Disease in Middle-Aged and Elderly Chinese ...

Researchers at Leipzig University and the University of Gothenburg have developed a novel approach to assessing an individual ...

The prevalence of obesity was 75.2% among adults in the U.S. when new criteria proposed by The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission was used to diagnose the disease, researchers reported in a ...

HealthDay News — The Pooled Cohort Equations (PCE) cardiovascular risk score stratifies risk for multiple ocular diseases, according to a study published online Dec. 29 in Ophthalmology.

Ultrasound-derived VAT demonstrated better predictive ability than BMI and waist circumference in hepato-metabolic assessment in MASLD.

Obesity is defined as excessive accumulation of adipose tissue, which worsens well-being and increases the risk of chronic ...

This article was reviewed by Felix Gussone, MD. Key Takeaways: Body composition offers a clearer picture of health than ...

Height and weight share a quiet but powerful relationship. When the balance tilts too far either way, the body feels it.

A new study redefines obesity, potentially classifying nearly 70% of US adults as obese, a significant jump from previous ...

The reason BMI is not very usable for measuring an individuals health is that the BMI only takes a persons weight and height ...