According to new research, a thick neck can be an accurate predictor of cardiovascular risk, as well as indicate type 2 ...

The prevalence of overweight and obesity has reached pandemic proportions, affecting more than 1 billion people worldwide; it represents a major driver of cardiovascular morbidity, mortality, and ...

A new study suggests your weight-to-height ratio may reveal heart disease risk more accurately than BMI. Subjects with larger ...

Doctors are increasingly looking beyond body mass index (BMI) and waist size to better understand how fat distribution in the ...

More work needs to be done to tease out the mechanisms by which GLP-1 RAs lower the risk of MACE, researchers say.

Carl Sagan explained the thought process of the ancient Greek scientist Eratosthenes, who determined the circumference of the ...