The proportion of students with high blood pressure fell by nearly 11% over five years among schools that signed up for free ...

As new Statistics Canada data reveals that two-thirds of Canadians are considered overweight or obese, researchers are urging ...

Science has provided us with many ways to measure our health. Whether it is through blood tests, physio tests, or scales like ...

What’s new? Researchers from Mass General Brigham, the University of Freiburg in Germany and other research institutions ...

The Washington Post's Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher explained in a recent book that Trump mostly stopped any athletic ...

Objective Certain leading medical organisations are considering alternatives to the Body Mass Index (BMI) as a predictor of the risk for non-communicable chronic disease (NCD) or death. Our objective ...

Researchers conducted a retrospective cohort study to assess the relationship between adolescent BMI trajectories and osteoporosis risk later in life.

Discover what metabolically unhealthy normal weight means, its risks for diabetes and heart disease, and steps to improve metabolic health.

This paper contributes to the literature on the impact of early-life health on education by estimating the effect of genetic predisposition to a higher body mass index (BMI) on educational attainment ...

Background Obesity is a known risk factor for hypertension, but the extent to which physical activity mediates this ...