Noted music executive Ben Vaughn, 49, has died. The president and CEO of Warner Chappell Music Nashville backed hits such as ...

BMI is widely used as a marker of health, but it turns out that it's not all that accurate -- especially for people of color.

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

World medical experts say there is a better way to look at body weight than BMI. I'm a psychologist who dated many toxic ...

Obesity, a new report recommends, should be diagnosed by an individual’s body fat percentage, not weight, which was the norm ...

The only subgroup with a significant difference in outcomes was multifetal pregnancies, though the study was not powered to ...

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health ...

Canadian youngsters are munching loads of ultra-processed foods, increasing their lifelong risk of obesity, a new study says.

Veterans with apnea-hypopnea index scores implying no sleep apnea or severe sleep apnea had higher all-cause mortality rates ...

Blood pressure numbers indicate the pressure measured when your heart beats (systolic), and in between the beats (diastolic).

Childhood BMI trends — specifically moderate BMI and high BMI variability — were associated with high cortisol concentrations at 17 years of age.

Body composition refers to the percentages body fat, bone, and lean tissue mass (basically, the muscle, organs, water, and ...