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 ...

Compared with overweight and obese women who had GDM in both pregnancies, those with GDM only in the first pregnancy gained fewer BMI units (mean change, 0.66 [95% CI, 0.25 - 1.07] vs 2.00 [95% CI ...

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 ...