New research published in the "European Heart Journal" indicates that individuals with a more significant amount of fat ...

The condition is better measured by looking at factors like inflammation, insulin resistance, and glucose tolerance, ...

Most people know that body fat stored around the midsection can spell disaster for cardiovascular health. But Harvard ...

BMI falls short as a way to measure obesity. Doctors need to also determine whether body fat harms a person's health.

Leading health experts challenge traditional BMI measurements and introduce a comprehensive new approach to diagnosing obesity, potentially affecting millions.

A body composition analyzer is a device that assesses your BMI, muscle mass, and body fat. You may feel healthy, but you can ...

An international team of doctors proposed a new way to define obesity that's not based solely on BMI. Here's what they ...

Increased intermuscular fat, not BMI, was independently associated with coronary microvascular function and major adverse CV ...

Turns out, you can’t outrun diabetes with a low BMI. In a sweeping study of nearly 45,000 participants, researchers set out to determine what drives the progression from prediabetes to diabetes — and ...

A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial ...

Instead of using the controversial body mass index, or BMI, to assess weight, an international group of scientists proposes ...

Skeletal muscle fat infiltration (IMAT) is linked to coronary microvascular dysfunction and increased cardiovascular risk, ...