Study shows people with high body fat are 78% more likely to die and three times more likely to die from heart disease, ...

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Fat tissue secretes hormones known as adipokines. Patients with obesity have a larger amount of leptin than a normal ...

A new study reports that measurements that detect body fat are a more accurate predictor of mortality risk than body mass ...

For young adults, body fat percentage is a better predictor of 15-year mortality risk than body mass index (BMI), according ...

The higher a person’s body mass index (BMI), the higher their risk for complications after bariatric surgery, such as higher ...

Body mass index, or BMI, has been used by medical professionals since the 1990s to classify whether individuals are a healthy ...

Body mass index, or BMI for short, is a measure of body weight based on your height. For decades, BMI has been a way to measure whether someone is at a healthy weight. In general, people are ...

Results show that body fat analysis did indeed predict people’s risk of death from any cause and, specifically, for heart ...