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 ...

The analysis found a nonlinear association between systemic inflammation and overactive bladder, with stronger links at higher inflammation levels. Higher levels of systemic inflammation were ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . High central adiposity was linked to elevated CV risk among people with normal BMI. In people with obesity, ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a study of obesity in children, exposure to endocrine-disrupting pesticides and pesticide mixtures is linked to increased ...

Waist-based measurements of body composition add diagnostic and prognostic value over conventional body mass index (BMI) categories when used to classify patients’ cardiovascular risk, according to a ...

In a recent study published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, researchers assessed the associations between cognitive function and adiposity. Study: The relationship between adiposity and ...