24 kg/m 2) were both associated with a 13% higher ... to provide additional risk information beyond that conveyed by BMI in men. "The weaker contribution of WC beyond that of BMI in women may ...

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

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as well as how to calculate BMI. You’ll notice the language used to share stats and other data points is pretty binary, fluctuating between the use of “male” and “female” or “men ...

New research presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2025, Malaga, Spain, 11–14 May) shows that the ...

Waist circumference is a stronger predictor of obesity-related cancer risk than BMI in men, but not in women, due to ...

New research to be presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2025, Malaga, Spain, 11-14 May) shows that the internationally recognized body mass index (BMI) cut-off points greatly ...

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 ...

A new study from Lund University in Malmö, Sweden, revealed that waist circumference is a stronger risk indicator for obesity-related cancers in men than Body Mass Index (BMI). The research ...

Serum levels of insulin and leptin, BMI and abdominal obesity were compared in 200 men with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) scheduled to undergo surgery and 302 controls. [13] Abdominal obesity ...