Background Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is a prevalent sleep disorder strongly associated with metabolic syndrome. Visceral ...

Objectives Body mass index (BMI) changes dynamically during early life, but whether BMI at specific developmental stages is ...

Life's Essential 8 (LE8) and Life's Crucial 9 (LC9) from the American Heart Association are industry-accepted metrics that summarize overall cardiovascular health. A new study documents inverse ...

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide. With rates continuing to rise, there is an urgent need to identify new modifiable breast cancer risk factors. New research led by the ...

BMI screening confirmed excess adiposity in > 98% of youth with obesity, while also identifying excess adiposity in up to 32.5% of youth without obesity. Researchers found that anthropometric measures ...

Of U.S. adults with a BMI indicating obesity, 98.4% also had excess adiposity confirmed by other measures. Researchers suggest there may be limited utility to confirming excess adiposity in people ...

The impact of obesity on brain ageing and the risk of dementia has long been a concern in the medical community. In clinical practice, body mass index ...

BMI alone may not accurately detect excess adiposity in children without obesity, missing many cases. The study emphasizes the need for additional body composition measures, like waist-height ratio ...

BMI can misrepresent adiposity, prompting recommendations for additional anthropometric measures or direct body fat assessment to confirm obesity diagnoses. The study found that 99.5% of youth with ...

In a recent study published in the JAMA Network Open Journal, researchers evaluated adiposity markers such as waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), fat mass index (FMI), and body mass index (BMI), to determine ...