The study analyzed data from 44,030 adults in the US who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey ...

The European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO) framework may offer a more sensitive measure of obesity than ...

The most prevalent complications among newly identified people with obesity were hypertension, arthritis, diabetes, and ...

A new study compares body mass index (BMI) with body fat percentage and finds the latter is far more reliable in predicting ...

Background Obesity is known to be associated with an increased risk of death, but current definitions of obesity are based on data from white populations. We examined the association between body mass ...

Mortality tables are based on characteristics, such as gender and age. A mortality table gives probabilities based on deaths per thousand, or the number of people per 1,000 living who are expected ...

A study found acute myeloid leukemia (AML) salvage therapy was independently associated with early mortality compared with frontline therapy, suggesting that algorithms measuring quality of care ...

Hospital mortality rates for pneumonia are much higher under a broader definition of the illness, according to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Researchers, led by Michael B ...