Older adults living with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) are frequently labeled as having chronic ...

Complex traits arise from the interplay between genetic and environmental factors. The actions of these factors usually appear to be additive, and few compelling examples of gene–environment synergy ...

The AACE consensus statement emphasizes improvement of overall health in addition to weight reduction among adults with obesity and adiposity-based chronic disease.

In a new position statement, the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) and the American College of Endocrinology (ACE) introduced a novel term for ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. The percentage of U.S. adults diagnosed with obesity ...

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 ...

We examined the associations of the body-mass index and physical activity with death among 116,564 women who, in 1976, were 30 to 55 years of age and free of known cardiovascular disease and cancer.

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 ...

Objectives To assess the influence of muscle power and adiposity on all-cause mortality risk and to evaluate the ‘fat but powerful’ (F+P) (or ‘fat but fit’) paradox in older adults. Methods A total of ...

4 UBC James Hogg Research Centre, Institute for Heart + Lung Health, St. Paul's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada 5 University of Calgary, McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint ...

Researchers from the University of Granada warn that an accumulation of fatty tissue in the neck (both the double chin and the deeper deposits, located between muscles and around the cervical ...