Fifteen years into the armed conflict in north-east Nigeria, food insecurity is threatening the lives of many of the country's youngest. Nearly 6.4 million children under the age of five suffer from ...

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Waist circumference, not BMI, was tied to increased risk for adiposity-related heart failure, and the association was ...

Excess belly weight or visceral fat may be a stronger predictor of heart failure than BMI, and inflammation plays a major ...

Research Highlights Fat stored around the waist, often called belly fat or visceral fat, showed a much stronger link to heart ...

New research suggests that measures of excess weight around the waist (central obesity or visceral fat) may increase the risk ...

New research suggests that measures of excess weight around the waist (central obesity or visceral fat) may increase the risk of heart failure primarily due to inflammation, according to findings ...

Diabetic macular edema (DME) is a diabetes complication that can cause low vision or vision loss. Early treatment may help preserve vision longer. High blood sugar can damage tiny eye blood vessels, ...

There are a number of ways to measure the magnitude of an earthquake. Most scales are based on the amplitude of seismic waves recorded on seismometers. These scales account for the distance between ...

If you get a high reading at the doctor's office, it may not be definitive. Here's what to know about your risk — and testing your blood pressure at home.

The metabolic syndrome is estimated to be present in 47 million US residents with a similar age-adjusted prevalence in men (24%) and women (23%). The consideration of various metabolic risk factors as ...