Higher BMI cutoffs are needed to diagnose overweight and obesity in male athletes, researchers reported in a study published ...

Johns Hopkins University researchers have found that nearly all adults identified as having obesity based on body mass index (BMI) also had confirmed excess adiposity. Use of BMI to diagnose ...

In the past 20 years, the average rate of obesity among adults in the United States has risen by approximately 30 percent, but the rate of those with the most severe forms of obesity, or those with a ...

We determined the diagnostic accuracy of BMI using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) in assessing the degree of obesity in older adults. The National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys ...

This could mean that BMI isn’t the best tool for older adults, new research finds. The research will be presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity in Malaga, Spain, from May 11-14.

A total of 2,844 adults of both sex and a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 25 kg/m² and above referred to the Division of Clinical Nutrition at the Department of Biomedicine and Prevention at the ...

In our analysis, we assessed the extent to which two measures of sleep (mean number of days of insufficient sleep and prevalence of ≥14 days of insufficient sleep) were associated with BMI category.

More than half of the setmelanotide group had a BMI reduction of at least 15% during the trial. A group of children and adults with hypothalamic obesity receiving setmelanotide for 1 year had ...