High BMI and poor physical fitness during later adolescence increase the risk of both contracting and dying from sepsis and other severe bacterial infections in adulthood, according to a study from ...

For many years now, overweight trends among children have been going up, and it's also a problem among older teenagers. New research looked at teens' increased risk of developing high blood pressure.

For decades, body mass index (BMI) has been the dominant tool for defining obesity, despite longstanding concerns that it poorly reflects individual health risk. Growing evidence suggests that the ...

In a large meta-analysis of cohort studies published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, researchers reviewed 20 studies, including 398,716 adults from multiple countries. If individuals had an ...

New research shows boys in their late teens with a high body mass index (BMI), and low aerobic fitness have a greater risk of having high blood pressure, or hypertension, as adults. “If you were an ...

High BMI and poor physical fitness during later adolescence increase the risk of both contracting and dying from sepsis and other severe bacterial infections in adulthood, according to a study from ...

Being in shape is far more crucial for a long, healthy life than being slim. That’s the conclusion of the largest, most comprehensive study yet of the relationship between aerobic fitness, body mass ...

Here's the general breakdown of BMI ranges for adults, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In addition, the condition of being anorexic is generally found to begin below 17.5, ...

As rates of obesity, as defined by body mass index (BMI), continue to climb in the United States, so have efforts to lose weight, including a new era of weight-loss drugs. Yet a new systematic review ...

You’ve probably heard of the abbriviation, maybe even said it yourself. And you might know that it stands for Body Mass Index, but do you really know it? In short, BMI measurements is a value derived ...

One of the things many people calculate when figuring out how to lose weight is their body mass index, but experts said a new calculation might be a better measure of obesity, especially when helping ...