Obesity has become a major public health issue in China. Overweight and obesity have
increased rapidly in the past four decades, and the latest national prevalence estimates for …

Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a chronic health condition that has reached alarming rates across
the globe. A little more than 2 decades ago, the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) …

China has one of the largest populations with obesity in the world, and obesity has become
a major challenge for the country's health-care system. Current guidelines for obesity …

Objective Development of these guidelines is mandated by the American Association of
Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) Board of Directors and the American College of …

The body mass index (BMI) is the metric currently in use for defining anthropometric
height/weight characteristics in adults and for classifying (categorizing) them into groups …

High whole-body fat percentage is independently associated with increased mortality. We
aimed to identify a simple anthropometric linear equation that is more accurate than the …

Excess intra-abdominal adipose tissue accumulation, often termed visceral obesity, is part of
a phenotype including dysfunctional subcutaneous adipose tissue expansion and ectopic …

The objective of this review was to compare and contrast the physiological and metabolic
profiles of rodent white adipose fat pads with white adipose fat depots in humans. Human fat …

This paper tries to discuss aspects of Body Mass Index (BMI) that represents an index of
body fat content in human, and is extensively used worldwide to measure different grades of …

Obesity is a prevalent global-health problem associated with substantial morbidity,
impairment and economic burden. Because most readily available forms of treatment are …