A new study has shown that that visceral obesity may be associated with an increased risk for dementia among older individuals. Image Credit: Lightspring / Shutterstock.com The researchers also found ...

Exercise can help people with large waistlines reduce their risk of developing type 2 diabetes, Finnish researchers said on Friday. Type 2 diabetes, the more common form of the illness caused by an ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A large waist circumference, which is known to raise the risk of cardiovascular disease, may also raise the risk of stroke or mini-stroke, researchers from Germany report.

While obesity remains a pressing public health threat, prevention and treatment are made difficult by the limits of the BMI to accurately measure excess adiposity, according to the study’s authors.