Association of atrial fibrillation with colorectal and breast cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2019 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . For people giving birth to twins, the gestational weight gain range with the lowest risk for adverse perinatal ...

High body fat from childhood was not associated with progressive vascular damage in young adulthood, a paper published in Hypertension Research concludes. The researchers examined cumulative exposure ...

Among adults with type 2 diabetes (T2D) older than 65 years, a body mass index (BMI) in the moderate overweight category (26-28) appears to offer better protection from cardiovascular death than does ...

Existing guidelines for weight gain and loss during pregnancy require adjustment to optimize outcomes in underweight and very obese women, and their babies, shows a large study from the French island ...

New research being presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Venice, Italy (12-15 May), identifies the optimum body weight range for adults with type 2 diabetes to minimize their ...

Authors found that BMI of 27 or greater shows excellent diagnostic performance. HealthDay News — The optimal body mass index (BMI) cutoff point appears to be 27kg/m 2 for detecting obesity in ...

While being overweight increases the risk of developing lifestyle-related diseases, there is a phenomenon known as the obesity paradox where a decreased risk of death has been seen during cancer ...

Very obese women should actually lose weight during pregnancy in order to have a healthy baby, contrary to current recommendations, according to a new study. The researchers behind the study say the ...