Low vitamin D in women is linked to more belly fat and lower muscle mass. The study suggests using waist-to-height ratio and ...

A new term is intended to limit negative connotations, but some experts consider it imprecise and difficult to interpret.

Childhood and adolescent obesity presents a pressing global health concern, increasingly affecting low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) alongside high-income nations. Overweight and obesity in chi ...

Objective: We conducted a prospective study among Japanese Americans of diabetes incidence in relation to visceral and regional adiposity, fasting insulin and C-peptide, and a measure of insulin ...

They used data that had been collected on body mass index (a calculation that is used to infer adiposity), height, weight, waist-to-hip ratio, and waist and hip circumference to determine which ...

Researchers conducted a prospective cohort study to assess the relationship between body composition and breast cancer risk among premenopausal Korean women.

We assessed the relationship between measures of adiposity, leukocyte telomere length, and mortality and whether it is modified by age. For this secondary analysis of data, we utilized the 1999 ...

Evidence from studies in lean and normal weight adults seems to support this notion; however, the relationship between adiposity and bone in adults with obesity suggests the opposite. In children ...

However, for sportspeople the epidemiological data linking weight or adiposity on one hand, and risk of tendon pathology on the other, are less consistent. Indeed, the mechanistic links between diet, ...

In the statement, the AMA said that it "recognizes that relative body shape and composition differences across race/ethnic groups, sexes, genders, and age-span is essential to consider when applying ...

Excess visceral fat is a major concern of long-term cortisol belly, as this is the type of fat that wraps itself around ...

Correspondence to Dr Jakob Tarp, Department of Sports Medicine, Norwegian School of Sports Sciences, Oslo 0806, Norway; jtarp{at}clin.au.dk Background The joint associations of total and ...