A multinational team of researchers has discovered that over 20% of adults with a normal BMI range experience levels of abdominal obesity that puts them at higher risk of hypertension, diabetes, high ...

A study finds 26% of people classified with a normal BMI meet the new definition of "clinical obesity," based on waist size and existing health damage.

A person can look fit, wear the right size, and still carry a silent risk. It sits around the waist, unnoticed and underestimated. For years, Body Mass Index (BMI) has been used as the standard way to ...

Over 26% of U.S. adults with a normal BMI met new criteria for clinical obesity proposed by the Lancet commission. About 78% of adults had excess adiposity if defined by using two or three abnormal ...

In several high-income countries including England and the USA, adults over 40 years old with obesity now have blood pressure and unhealthy cholesterol levels approaching, or healthier than, people ...

Millions of Americans who leave their annual physical exam with a clean bill of health — weight normal, BMI in range — may be walking around with cardiovascular risk that their doctor never measured ...