Body Mass Index

According to a new study, children who eat vegetarian food have similar growth and nutrition measures, compared to children who eat meat. As per the study led by researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital of Unity Health, children having a…

I have a sweet tooth. Is there any way I can have sugar and still lose weight? I have this amused smile right now. You cannot have the cake and the icing too, my dear. Deficiencies in certain minerals such as zinc,…

Previously, the landmark Diabetes Remission Clinical Trial (DiRECT), from Glasgow and Newcastle universities, showed that an intensive weight loss programme delivered by GPs can put T2D into remission in people who are overweight. …

Express News Service HYDERABAD:  Nisha*, a 32-year-old lecturer, was living a perfectly healthy life, apart from her mild OCD, and had a spot-on Body Mass Index (BMI) until in early 2020 when she went on an…

A team led by Dong Ki Kim, MD, PhD, Sehoon Park, MD, and Kyungdo Han, PhD examined whether BMI variability may affect the prognosis of patients with kidney dysfunction.‘Poor outcomes in chronic kidney disease are predicted by weight…

"Our results suggest that promoting an active lifestyle may have substantial benefits for both prevention and treatment of OSA," said Tianyi Huang, MSc, ScD, an Associate Epidemiologist at Brigham. ‘Women in their 60's and adults whose…

The researchers investigated the association between urban factors that the children were exposed to between October 2017 and January 2019 (ambient air pollution, green spaces, built environment, density of unhealthy food establishments,…

The researchers conducted an examination of patients with lung cancer before they underwent surgery and calculated their excess body weight using visceral fat index measured by CT scans. ‘Body Mass Index (BMI) might not be the best…

In the study, researchers compared data from two groups of people who had been diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment - half whose disease progressed to Alzheimer's in 24 months and half whose condition did not worsen. ‘Statistical…

The contrast evidence to this suggest that women who gain weight after menopause have an increased risk of postmenopausal breast cancer as per adult BMI. ‘Higher body mass index (BMI) in childhood may help protect women against breast…