A group of 58 researchers is calling for a new, better way to measure obesity and excess body fat that goes beyond BMI.

As Tom Selleck approaches his 80th birthday on January 29, sources close to the actor reveal that he is grappling with feelings of melancholy and concerns about his health. While h ...

Depending on the person's individual risk—such as a family history of disease, level of body fat and changes over time—they ...

BMI has long been falling out of favor. When the American Medical Association urged downgrading BMI in 2023, it blamed its ...

An international and widely supported group of experts is pushing doctors to avoid the exclusive use of BMI to decide whether ...

Despite the requirement for effective and safe pharmacotherapies to tackle the obesity epidemic, there is currently only one drug, orlistat, licensed for this purpose, but the effectiveness of ...

Thus, there was an approximately tenfold higher correlation between gene expression and obesity-related traits in adipose tissue relative to blood. Because they knew the family associations ...