Women working permanent night shifts vs. day shifts faced an elevated likelihood for moderate to severe asthma, whereas this was not observed in men, according to results published in ERJ Open ...

A new study compares body mass index (BMI) with body fat percentage and finds the latter is far more reliable in predicting ...

Quitting smoking is linked to greater long-term waist circumference gain, but this effect may be due to shared genetics ...

What makes a man’s body attractive? A new international study explored this question using body scans and evolutionary models ...

A new study reports that measurements that detect body fat are a more accurate predictor of mortality risk than body mass ...

When it comes to measuring weight, BMI is the acronym everyone loves to hate, but authors of a new study say a different ...

If you’ve grown up believing that a BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 is the ultimate indicator of good health, you may be surprised ...

Results show that body fat analysis did indeed predict people’s risk of death from any cause and, specifically, for heart ...