Many adults with a normal BMI may still carry excess body fat that increases the risk of diabetes, heart disease, and other ...

India faces dual health crises: rising obesity, diabetes, malnutrition persists. Nearly one in three women, one in four men are overweight. Diabetes prevalence increases significantly, affecting ...

Could the way doctors traditionally measure obesity allow a subset of people with obesity-related health risks slip through ...

In north India, Punjab women at the top and men rank second, according to the National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-6 (2023-24); Rajindra Hospital’s director principal attributes the trend to changing ...

Research suggests that a waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) measurement is a better indicator of obesity than body mass index (BMI), ...

UP to 25 per cent more adults could be classed as obese under a radical shake-up of the body-mass-index (BMI) system, experts ...

A large majority of Americans are walking around with too much body fat, nationally representative data suggests.

Over 26% of U.S. adults with a normal BMI met new criteria for clinical obesity proposed by the Lancet commission. About 78% of adults had excess adiposity if defined by using two or three abnormal ...

Chandigarh leads in overweight and obesity among men ...