One of the inadequacies of using body mass index (BMI) as a predictive factor is that “current BMI-based measures of obesity can both underestimate and overestimate” a persons ...

Dr. Aseem Malhotra, a cardiologist and public health campaigner based in London, says Americans' foods are fueling chronic diseases. He shares his warnings and tips with Fox News Digital.

Neurodegenerative diseases are a heterogeneous group of disorders that are characterized by the progressive degeneration of the structure and function of the central nervous system or peripheral ...

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health ...

Medical terminology has often confused some of the everyday health conditions related to a body part. Several terms, notably ...

A report published last week in “The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology” strives to redefine obesity. An international group convened to examine the longstanding concept and are recommending better ...

A commission proposed a new definition of obesity focused on how excess fat affects the body, rather than assessing body mass ...

IN the introduction to his comprehensive report on the cholera epidemic of 1848–49, William Farr, 1 that greatest of statistical epidemiologists, wrote, "If a foreign army had landed on the ...

Feeling sensations without a physical cause is a type of paresthesia. Potential causes include Parkinson’s disease, anxiety, perimenopause, and schizophrenia, among others. A person may also ...

High blood pressure affects multiple organs. Not only can hypertension add stress to the heart and damage arteries, leading to heart disease, but it also can cause strokes and kidney disease as ...