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Your BMI could be affecting your menstrual cycle—researchers explain how
Extreme BMIs—both high and low—are linked to irregular menstrual cycles and increased risk of anovulatory cycles, ...
Forget BMI – here’s the best way to measure childhood obesity
15 and 24 years old. The researchers concluded that waist measurements “detected excess fat mass and distinguished fat mass ...
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Association of maternal metabolic risk factors with offspring body mass index (BMI) trajectories in early childhood: a retrospective cohort study
Objective This study aimed to identify body mass index (BMI) growth trajectories from birth to 24 months of age and examine ...
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Revolutionary new weight loss shot helped people lose 15% of their body mass
NICE recommended the weight loss injection following success during trials that saw a group of participants lose up to 15 percent of their body mass index (BMI). It sounds like the basis of the ...
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Travis Kelce, Jake Gyllenhaal and why BMI is problematic. It needs to change, panel says.
But this measure, called body mass index, or BMI, lacks nuance and fails to tell whether a person is truly healthy, a global commission of medical experts said in a paper published Tuesday in The ...
BMI overestimates childhood obesity compared to waist-to-height ratio, study suggests
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.