Imagine trying to work out if you are dangerously overweight without once hopping on to the bathroom scales. That's what a new method for determining body size aims to do.

The study highlights BMI's role in mediating genetic risk for diseases, suggesting a complex relationship with conditions ...

New study from /Amgen highlights the importance of BMI in pathogenesis of disease, suggesting that reducing BMI alone could lower the risk of several diseases.

In a little over two decades, almost 260 million people in the United States are predicted to have overweight or obesity, ...

Kari Stefansson and Gudmundur Einarsson, scientists at deCODE genetics and authors on the paper, discuss a new paper in Nature Communications ... but not entirely explained by BMI. The study found ...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Nov. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- New study from deCODE ... but not entirely explained by BMI. The study found similar patterns in men and women, although there were some ...

Experts have started thinking more broadly about what puts a person at risk for heart disease, still the leading killer in the U.S.

The overall average body fat percentage in the United States is about 39.9% for women and 28.1% for men, so below these amounts would technically be “below average.” However, most people in the United ...

analysts at BMI warned that the Trump Presidency “breeds new uncertainty” for the Brent oil price. “Donald Trump has won the U.S. presidential election but without greater clarity on which ...

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