A retrospective study demonstrated slightly elevated baseline fasting plasma glucose levels to be a robust marker of incident diabetes risk, even when those levels fell within the normal range.

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

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

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

Women with high prepregnancy BMI have higher stillbirth and perinatal death risks, but this association weakens with chronic ...

The researchers calculated fat stored in muscles through the ratio of intermuscular fat to total muscle plus fat, and termed ...

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

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

Researchers found that women with high levels of intermuscular fat had an ‘especially high risk’ of heart attack or failure, ...

Body Mass Index, or BMI, has long been criticized as an unreliable method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts ...

The researchers found that for every one per cent increase in muscle fat, there was an increase in coronary microvascular dysfunction and serious heart disease. Read on to know more.

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