Indians face higher diabetes and heart risks at lower body mass index (BMI) levels than Western populations.

While everyone feels chilly on occasion and the weather can impact our body temperature, there may be something else at play if you're always cold.

People living in the UK can learn more about their health by using the free online assessment tool ...

According to the NHS, coronary heart disease is a major cause of death in the UK. The NHS says: "The build-up of atheroma ...

While the calculator is not suitable for everyone, such as people with a cardiovascular disease, the NHS says you can use it if you live in the UK, you're aged between 30 and 95, and you don't have a ...

Macro tracking has long been used as a dieting technique by bodybuilders and professional athletes, but has edged its way into the mainstream in recent years via social media, where it is often framed ...

Three major modifiable risk factors account for much of the attributable cancer burden, but substantial variations across ...

Waist-to-height ratio outperforms BMI in predicting heart disease risk, particularly among people who are not classified as ...

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 ...

Researchers at Leipzig University and the University of Gothenburg have developed a novel approach to assessing an individual's risk of metabolic diseases such as diabetes or fatty liver disease more ...

A recent study shows that people with the highest intake of ultraprocessed foods had a 48% higher rate of death from any ...

Scientists have discovered something that they previously thought wasn’t possible – an ‘inside out’ star system. When you line all the planets in our solar system up, the four closest to the sun are ...