When you go in for a wellness exam, oftentimes the first things the medical assistant does is take your height and weight.

Patients with severe asthma (4.6% of asthma patients) are more likely to be female, older, and have higher BMI than those with non-severe asthma.

According to a study from the United States, women experience weight stigma in maternity care at almost every visit. We expect this experience to be similar in Australia, where more than 50% of women ...

Thigh intramuscular fat infiltration (IMFI) may significantly increase the risk of developing knee and hip osteoarthritis (OA), regardless of sex or body weight, according to findings from a ...

A new study using NHANES data found that higher Life’s Crucial 9 (LC9) scores, reflecting better cardiovascular and mental ...

In a new study, researchers evaluated the potential relationship between disordered eating attitudes and nutritional status ...

Risk factors contributing to LBP worldwide have shifted between 1990 and 2021, with high BMI increasingly impacting years lived with disability due to LBP.

In the past 20 years, the average rate of obesity among adults in the United States has risen by approximately 30%, but the ...

Obesity prevalence was higher among female incarcerated individuals but lower among male incarcerated individuals across all country income levels.

A new analysis links higher triglyceride-glucose (TyG) and TyG–body mass index (TyG-BMI) levels to increased colorectal ...

New research shows that the social and academic environments of high school can leave a lasting imprint on adult body weight.

Waist circumference is a stronger predictor of obesity-related cancer risk than BMI in men, but not in women, due to ...