People living with both obesity and type 2 diabetes face a sharply elevated risk of heart failure, atherosclerotic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Body fat levels vary due to physiological, pathological, environmental, hormonal, and genetic factors. Our study identifies HSP47 – abundant in fat tissues – as a key determinant of body adiposity.

Shawn Davis, MD, explains why shifting from BMI to adiposity-based care could transform how health systems allocate resources and reduce obesity-driven hospital costs. Shawn Davis, MD, a physician at ...

About The Study: Among U.S. adults ages 20 to 59, the prevalence of obesity by body mass index (BMI) only was nearly identical with the obesity prevalence after confirmation of excess adiposity.

In new research to be presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity in Istanbul, Turkey (12-15 May) and published in The Journal of Nutrition, a 42-year old theory as to why children's body ...