University of Washington students won the grand prize at the UW's Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge for their ...

The obesity diagnosis has always been controversial. Now, a new clinical definition is raising even more questions.

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Body mass index (BMI) was almost three times more likely to classify children as overweight than waist circumference-to-height ratio, according to a new study.

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Obesity has long been classified as a global epidemic — and new data published in The Lancet journal spotlights how much ...

Body mass index (BMI) was almost three times more likely to classify children as overweight as a waist circumference-to-height ratio, according to a new study.

She's a professor of health metrics sciences with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of ...

Well-to-do and better-educated Americans have far lower rates of heart disease than the rest of the population, a new study ...

Well-to-do and better-educated Americans have far lower rates of heart disease than the rest of the population, a ...

Body mass index (BMI) was almost three times more likely to classify children as overweight than waist circumference-to-height ratio, according to a new study.

If observed trends over the past 30 years continue, the total number of adults ages 25 and older living with overweight (body ...