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Body Mass Index (BMI) is a measure that relates body weight to height. BMI is sometimes used to measure total body fat and whether a person is a healthy weight. Excess body fat is linked to an increased risk of some diseases including heart disease and some cancers.

Moving to polluted areas can lead to weight gain in kids

A large natural experiment in Catalonia shows that moving to areas with higher levels of air pollution is associated with weight gain in young children.

1 Aug 2023

How effective is physical activity in alleviating obesity-related inflammation in diabetes?

Scientists determine whether physical activity can be used as an effective intervention to mitigate obesity-related inflammation in diabetes.

1 Aug 2023

Modest updates to current school meal nutrition standards could lead to significant health benefits

Today's school meals are much healthier than they were for the parents of American kids, but still 1 in 4 school meals are of poor nutritional quality.

31 Jul 2023

Trial evaluates purine P2X7 receptor antagonist JNJ-54175446 in patients with major depressive disorder

Researchers investigated the safety and pharmacokinetics of JNJ-54175446 in a double-blind, multicenter, randomized controlled trial (RCT).

31 Jul 2023

What is the association between soft drink consumption and prevalence of overweight and obesity in adolescents?

Daily soft drink consumption is strongly associated with overweight and obesity.

31 Jul 2023

Smoking, physical inactivity, and other lifestyle factors increase the risk of multimorbidity

Researchers examine a wide range of lifestyle variables in the context of multimorbidity of chronic non-communicable illnesses.

31 Jul 2023

Effects of turmeric supplementation in individuals with metabolic syndrome and diabetes

Study evaluated the effects of turmeric supplementation on glucose metabolism in patients with metabolic syndrome.

26 Jul 2023

Can epigenetic changes explain the strong link between age and cancer?

Researchers reported the link between aging, cancer, and epigenomic changes.

26 Jul 2023

Tackling obesity in children with heart disease

Childhood is a window of opportunity to tackle obesity before the damage it causes is irreversible, according to a scientific statement by experts on heart disease and childhood obesity published today in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, a journal of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).1

26 Jul 2023

The link between constipation and cognitive decline

Researchers report the worsening of cognition among chronically constipated individuals.

25 Jul 2023

The relationships between risk factors and kidney events in two diabetic cohorts

Researchers use the association rule to assess chronic kidney disease risk in the General and Worker diabetes populations.

25 Jul 2023

Could alpha lipoic acid treat polycystic ovary syndrome?

Authors analyzed the efficacy of alpha lipoic acid (ALA) in treating polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).

24 Jul 2023

Study illuminates why obesity makes ovarian cancer more deadly

Most women with ovarian cancer are diagnosed with the most advanced form of the disease. Less than a third of those diagnosed with the disease survive five years later. As the third most common type of gynecological cancer, it led to more than 200,000 reported deaths globally in 2020 alone, according to a recent study.

20 Jul 2023

Is repetitive heading of the ball during a professional soccer career associated with an increased risk of cognitive impairment?

In a recent study, a group of researchers investigated if heading frequency is associated with cognitive impairment in retired soccer players.

20 Jul 2023

Did multimodal in-office/telemedicine prenatal care implemented during the pandemic perform similarly to in-office prenatal care?

Researchers compared the performance of a multimodal prenatal health care model combining in-office and telemedicine visits to an in-office-only model between the pre-pandemic and pandemic period.

20 Jul 2023

Body Mass Index (BMI) News and Research

Further Reading

Moving to polluted areas can lead to weight gain in kids

How effective is physical activity in alleviating obesity-related inflammation in diabetes?

Modest updates to current school meal nutrition standards could lead to significant health benefits

Trial evaluates purine P2X7 receptor antagonist JNJ-54175446 in patients with major depressive disorder

What is the association between soft drink consumption and prevalence of overweight and obesity in adolescents?

Smoking, physical inactivity, and other lifestyle factors increase the risk of multimorbidity

Effects of turmeric supplementation in individuals with metabolic syndrome and diabetes

Can epigenetic changes explain the strong link between age and cancer?

Tackling obesity in children with heart disease

The link between constipation and cognitive decline

The relationships between risk factors and kidney events in two diabetic cohorts

Could alpha lipoic acid treat polycystic ovary syndrome?

Study illuminates why obesity makes ovarian cancer more deadly

Is repetitive heading of the ball during a professional soccer career associated with an increased risk of cognitive impairment?

Did multimodal in-office/telemedicine prenatal care implemented during the pandemic perform similarly to in-office prenatal care?

How the COVID-19 pandemic altered antibiotic prescribing for common bacterial infections

Pro-inflammatory cytokine levels and their relation to preeclampsia severity

Cognitively stimulating activities reduce dementia risk in the elderly

Epigenetic formatting of satiety gene may increase risk of obesity in women

Does Mediterranean diet adherence impact mental health?

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