body mass index (BMI), and male sex are all associated with development of diabetes, according to a study published online ...

El Paso, TX (KVIA-TV)-A new definition of obesity, published in the Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology Journal, proposes a new definition that moves beyond body mass index (BMI). Dr. Jorge Acosta, the ...

Eye care provider Vision Scotland has announced a new chief executive as it officially unveils its £5 million clinic in ...

There is an eternal chicken-or-egg debate over obesity and Type 2 diabetes—science still can’t quite pin down which causes ...

Objective Glenohumeral (GH) osteoarthritis (OA) is the third most common large joint disease, after hip and knee OA. This ...

"Heart disease takes years to decades to develop, and the process starts in the younger years," one heart doctor told us. Here, cardiologists share their best-kept secrets to set up your ticker for a ...

CNLC supports Benevolent Missions International (BMI), a 50-year-old, nonprofit organization dedicated to providing needed ...

Patients with vitiligo or alopecia areata had lower BMI and lipid dysregulation, but this relationship was not observed in patients with psoriasis.

The condition is better measured by looking at factors like inflammation, insulin resistance, and glucose tolerance, according to the doctor. In some cases, using BMI can result in “muscular athletes” ...

While the new recommendations still uses BMI as a "first pass" screening tool, it drills down into whether a person has pre-clinical obesity or clinic obesity with other means of measure ...

"We recommend that clinicians thoroughly assess people with obesity in the clinic and use other measures of body size — waist circumference or others — to understand if an increased BMI level ...