A large study published in The Lancet Regional Health – Americas shows that waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) is a stronger and ...

Higher body mass index (BMI) after diagnosis is linked to better survival outcomes in patients with localized renal cell ...

"Throw away that regular scale and focus instead on knowing what your fat mass is, what your lean muscle mass is, and what ...

The Yale team defined BMI-defined obesity using well-established threshold set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatric ...

Monitoring your health begins with understanding your body composition, and one of the simplest ways to do that is by using a BMI calculator.

New study shows how hidden visceral and liver fat can clog arteries and raise heart disease risk even in people who appear ...

Obesity indices, particularly body fat percentage and relative fat mass, were associated with OA and may aid in early detection.

Health conditions such as anorexia can lead to extreme weight loss and starvation. Learn how losing too much weight can affect the body and what treatment can look like.

In patients with renal cell carcinoma, greater abdominal adiposity and lower skeletal mass are associated with aggressive pathology.

In a retrospective analysis, patients with colon cancer taking GLP-1 agonists had a 62% lower risk of 5-year mortality ...