Higher BMI cutoffs are needed to diagnose overweight and obesity in male athletes, researchers reported in a study published in Nutrients. Using a BMI cutoff of 25 kg/m2 to diagnose overweight and ...

Even for men who had been in the 22.5–25 BMI range in adolescence—that is, within the normal weight range—an elevated risk of needing hospital care for COVID-19 was found.

The cross-sectional study involved 622 males (average age of 25.7 years, BMI ≥ 20 kg/m 2) who had been referred to the Department of Neurosciences, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, of the ...

Moreover, male COVID-19 patients are more likely to be hospitalized than females. Hence, ... race/ethnicity, body mass index (BMI), immunosuppression, and comorbidities. Findings.

For example, the estimated 10-year diabetes risk was 7.0% for a woman aged 55 to 59 years with a BMI of 18.5 to 24.9kg/m 2 and an FPG level of 95 to 99mg/dL.

A new study from Lund University in Malmö, Sweden, revealed that waist circumference is a stronger risk indicator for obesity-related cancers in men than Body Mass Index (BMI). The research ...

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Men with a high body mass index (BMI) in their upper teens had an elevated risk of severe COVID-19, requiring hospitalization, later in life, a new study from Sweden finds.