Higher baseline BMI and lower initial eating disorder psychopathology were both predictors of “full response” and “full recovery” treatment outcomes.

It found that a body mass index for children, adjusted for age and gender, fell by 0.041 units per year, compared to before the law took effect. That amounts to about a quarter of one BMI unit per ...

The study from the University of Bristol is one of the first to find that for every 5 extra BMI units, a woman’s risk of womb (endometrial) cancer is almost doubled (increase of 88%). This is ...

Similarly, a one BMI unit increase from the average pubertal BMI (equivalent to an average pubertal BMI change of 5.4kg/m 2) in men was associated with a 1.03 mmHg increase in systolic blood ...