Body Mass Index

Patients with higher or lower BMIs faced significantly greater risks for global cognitive function and frontal domain performances following an ischemic stroke, according to a study published in Scientific Reports.

Men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer and obesity had a higher survival probability than their counterparts with overweight and normal weight, according to study results.

Data on how stigmatization stress responses and gender-affirming hormone therapies may impact the heart health of transgender and gender-diverse individuals are lacking, researchers reported.

Younger Black women had higher BMI, LDL levels, salt intake and fast food consumption compared with older Black women, according to research presented at the virtual American College of Cardiology Scientific Session.

Modifiable risk factors, including high blood pressure and HbA1c, were associated with diabetic retinopathy and diabetic macular edema in pediatric subjects with type 1 diabetes, according to a study.

Daily probiotic use correlated with a reduction in upper respiratory tract infection symptoms among overweigh individuals, according to a presentation at the Digestive Disease Week media briefing.

High BMI in adolescence was associated with ischemic stroke risk regardless of diabetes status, according to a study published in Stroke.

Researchers found an inverse association between spinach consumption and the risk for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, according to BMC Gastroenterology.

Obesity increases the risk for developing cancer at 10 different sites, regardless of which adiposity-related markers are used, according to data presented at the European Congress on Obesity annual meeting.

Having a higher childhood BMI may be protective against both premenopausal and postmenopausal breast cancer, according to data presented at the European Congress on Obesity annual meeting.