Across ages 3 to 9 years, children in a responsive parenting group had a lower mean BMI than those in a control group. Early ...

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In patients with acute heart failure, it is unclear how body mass index affects clinical outcomes following acute myocardial infarction.

Body mass index is a measure that provides insight into body fat by comparing an individual's height and weight. This ...

Higher SDI regions had higher burden of osteoarthritis; high body mass index influences osteoarthritis burden, especially in higher SDI countries.

An early-life responsive parenting intervention resulted in lower body mass index from age 3 to 9 compared with a control intervention. This group difference was driven by effects on female ...

The increasing popularity of weight loss drugs like Wegovy, Ozempic, Mounjaro and metformin may have you wondering how all ...

BMI stands for body mass index, explains Dr. Benedict Ifedi, MD, a family medicine doctor at Memorial Hermann. Dr. Glickman ...

A new risk prediction model can help identify people who are likely to develop early-onset colon cancer or small non-ca ...

The following is a summary of “Weight discrimination partially mediates the longitudinal relationship between Body Mass Index and pain,” published in the March 2025 issue of Journal of Pain by Olson ...

For some people, the quest to lose weight feels like a constant struggle. Now, scientists have revealed that a newly ...

Both studies estimated that India’s number of overweight and obese people will keep increasing till 2050. What may be the ...