In particular, abdominal fat has emerged as one of the strongest predictors of future cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and ...

Abdominal adiposity was associated with accelerated biological aging across measures based on metabolomics, clinical biomarkers, and DNA methylation. Accelerated biological age predicted higher risks ...

Many people are concerned about their belly size and shape for aesthetic reasons and often aim for a flat stomach ...

The accumulation of fat in the abdominal region, especially visceral fat (fat that accumulates between organs), significantly increases the risk of stress urinary incontinence in women. A study ...

A growing wave of research now puts visceral fat under a very bright spotlight, and the results feel hard to ignore.

The distribution of body fat, and particularly fat accumulated around the abdomen, is a determining factor in the risk of developing metabolic and cardiovascular diseases. However, not all abdominal ...

The worry of gaining weight is a common excuse for smokers not to quit. A new study published today in the scientific journal Addiction has found that both starting smoking and lifetime smoking may ...

The Body Roundness Index (BRI) is quickly becoming a key measurement tool in the field of cardiovascular disease (CVD) research. This innovative index offers a far more accurate and reliable ...

This article was reviewed by Craig Primack, MD, FACP, FAAP, FOMA. Belly fat — both the visible kind and the deep kind that sits around your organs — is caused by a combination of factors. This ...

For years, body mass index, or BMI, was considered the standard way to evaluate health risk related to weight. But many cardiologists and metabolic health researchers now believe BMI tells only part ...