In the past 20 years, the average rate of obesity among adults in the United States has risen by approximately 30%, but the ...

Body mass index might be a more accurate measurement than commonly thought. New research shows that a vast majority of people ...

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

Elinzanetant significantly reduced the frequency and severity of vasomotor symptoms, known as hot flashes, compared with ...

Clinicians need to address maternal health at all stages, with some seeing a possible new role for GLP-1 drugs.

A BMI of 25 kg/m 2 or above is an indicator of overweight and a BMI of 30 kg/m 2 or above indicates obesity in white men and women of all ages, according to the World Health Organization's (WHO ...

Some 451 (72.5%) individuals were of normal weight (BMI 18.5-24.99 kg/m²), 148 (23.8%) individuals were with overweight (25 kg/m²-29.9 kg/m²) and 23 (3.7%) were with obesity (30 kg/m² and above).

In a new study, Professor El Ghoch and researchers from the University of Verona in Italy and Beirut University in Lebanon set out to determine how accurate the BMI cut-offs of 25 and 30 kg/m 2 ...