A widely accepted marker of early obesity risk may instead reflect normal muscle development, with implications for how clinicians assess adiposity in children.

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One's degree of visceral adiposity and its change over time, measured by computed tomography (CT), predict risk of developing metabolic syndrome independently of body-mass index (BMI), according to a ...

BMI alone may not accurately detect excess adiposity in children without obesity, missing many cases. The study emphasizes the need for additional body composition measures, like waist-height ratio ...

India, April 18 -- The early drop in children's BMI is due to increasing muscle mass, not a reduction in body fat, according ...

In prespecified analyses from the SELECT trial, semaglutide reduced major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) compared with placebo, with only about one-third of benefit mediated by waist ...

Actionable Tumor Alterations and Treatment Protocol Enrollment of Pediatric and Young Adult Patients With Refractory Cancers in the National Cancer Institute–Children's Oncology Group Pediatric MATCH ...

Objectives To assess the influence of muscle power and adiposity on all-cause mortality risk and to evaluate the ‘fat but powerful’ (F+P) (or ‘fat but fit’) paradox in older adults. Methods A total of ...