New research published in Diabetologia and presented at this year's annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., shows that excessively high body mass index (BMI) in adolescents is ...
Jun 5, 2022
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Physicians are told to gauge the severity of a child's problem with obesity using the body mass index (BMI) that measures weight against height. But that doesn't work well to identify health issues, especially those of mental ...
Apr 2, 2019
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New research from the Healthy Nevada Project has found associations between genetics, obesity, and childhood trauma, linking social health determinants, genetics, and disease. The study, which was published this week in ...
Mar 9, 2022
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Overweight women are more likely to experience symptoms of long COVID according to new research from the University of East Anglia.
Nov 30, 2022
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Less than two thirds of adults can correctly estimate their own body mass index (BMI) and less than half can identify their own body size, according to a study of 744 Polish adults published in Scientific Reports.
Jan 27, 2022
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People have differing abilities to release and react to insulin depending on ethnicity, according to a new study from researchers at Lund University in Sweden, Stanford University and Kitasato University.
Jun 27, 2013
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(AP) -- Rural Mississippi is the country's fattest state for the seventh year in a row, according to an annual obesity report issued Thursday. Colorado, a playground for hikers and outdoor enthusiasts, is the nation's thinnest.
Jul 7, 2011
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People who start adulthood with a body mass index (BMI) in the normal range and move later in life to being overweight—but never obese—tend to live the longest, a new study suggests.
Feb 2, 2021
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After a decade of work, a team led by Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont researcher and Université de Montréal associate professor Dr. Gilbert Bernier has shed promising light on the origin of the most common and prevalent form ...
May 29, 2018
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A study involving more than 8,000 participants has shown that people with a family history of diabetes see their risk of prediabetes increase by 26%. The research is published in Diabetologia, the journal of the European ...
Aug 21, 2013
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