BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Accumulating fat around one's middle can significantly impair lung function, new findings show, in addition to increasing the risk of heart disease. The research, conducted by ...

Add dementia to the growing list of conditions a pot belly may predict. Researchers report that individuals with large abdominal girth in their 40s were as much as 3.6 times more likely to exhibit ...

March 26, 2008 (Oakland, Calif.) – People in their 40s with larger stomachs have a higher risk for dementia when they reach their 70s, according to a study published in the March 26, 2008, online ...

It seems the article on having a big abdomen and a large waist has suddenly made plenty of people aware of the feature on their bodies. Further than that, many are very concerned that there are health ...

Proteus syndrome is a complex disorder associated with varied, disproportionate, asymmetric overgrowth of many body parts and unregulated adipose tissue. The overgrowth seen in Proteus syndrome is ...

Here’s what upper stomach pain is, what commonly causes it and when to seek care.

Doctors in Bengaluru have treated a 59-year-old Iraqi man with an 11 cm large abdominal aneurysm - a swelling in the aorta - giving him a new lease of life. The man has been suffering from ischemic ...

Accumulating fat around one's middle can significantly impair lung function, new findings show, in addition to increasing the risk of heart disease. The research, conducted by UB scientists, found ...