Washington, June 14 (ANI): A new study has found that postmenopausal women who use antidepressant medication or suffer from depression might be more likely to have a higher body mass index (BMI), larger waist circumference and inflammation-all associated with increased risk for diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Washington, June 12 (ANI): Researchers have found that infants as young as two months old already exhibit growth patterns that can predict the child's weight by age 5.

Washington, June 12 (ANI): Women who are overweight or obese are more likely to have preterm delivery, according to a new Swedish study.

London, June 6 (ANI): Your face can reveal a lot about you - even body mass index.

Washington, June 5 (ANI): Researchers found that obese teenagers who reduced their body mass index (BMI) by 8 percent or more had improvements in insulin sensitivity, an important metabolic factor related to the later development of type 2 diabetes.

Sydney, June 4 (ANI): Bangkok is predicted to overtake London as the world's most popular city for 2013, according to a global index.

Johannesburg, May 30 (ANI): Bangkok, the transport hub has been touted as the first Asian city to be the world's most popular air travel destination according to a ranking by the MasterCard Index of Global Destination Cities.

London, May 26 (ANI): Google CEO Eric Schmidt has said that even despicable but legal information on Google's search engine will be indexed to help track terrorism- promoting websites.

New Delhi, May 17 (ANI): The Union Cabinet has given its approval for increase in the present income criterion of Rs. 4.5 lakh per annum for applying the Creamy Layer restriction throughout the country to Rs. 6 lakh per annum.

Washington, May 15 (ANI): Women with a lean body shape have a greater risk of developing endometriosis than women who are morbidly obese, a new study has revealed.

Washington, May 5 (ANI): Preschool children are less likely to be obese if they live in a neighborhood that is safe and within walking distance of parks and retail services, according to a new study.

Washington, Apr 26 (ANI): The harmful combination of high alcohol intake and high body mass index (BMI) causes an increased risk of chronic liver disease, a new study has found.

Washington, Apr 21 (ANI): People who participate in community gardening have a significantly lower body mass index, as well as lower odds of being overweight or obese, than their non-gardening neighbours, a new study has found.

London, Apr 20 (Xinhua-ANI): Fitch Ratings, an international credit rating agency, Friday joined with Moody's in downgrading Britain's triple-A ratings, warning the 2.43-trillion-U.S. dollars economy's sluggish growth and burdensome fiscal austerity plan.The move came shortly after the trading close of London Stock Exchange, of which benchmark index edged up 0.69 percent and snapped a five consecutive day down.

Washington, April 19 (ANI): Video games that have some sort of social aspect leads people to exercise more frequently and helped them decrease their body-mass index, according to new research.

Tokyo/New Delhi, April 9 (ANI): Beijing's air pollution made news recently when fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in the city air rose to an 'out-of-index' level of 755 mg/cu m (Milligrams per cubic meter), forcing people to use masks to protect themselves from hazardous dust particles.

London, Apr. 5 (ANI): Girls are lagging behind boys in happiness index because of pressure from an early age to look a certain way, an official Government study has found.

Sydney, April 4 (Xinhua-ANI): Australia's Minster for Early Childhood Peter Garrett said Thursday that the latest data from the Australian Early Development Index (AEDI) showed the country' s five-year-old children were developing better compared with the results in 2009.

London, Apr. 3 (ANI): New York's Dow Jones and SandP 500 share indexes have climbed to new all-time highs.

Bangalore, Mar 29 (Business Wire-ANI): Sachin Tendulkar is the Man of the Series as per IBM Social Sentiment Index for the Border Gavaskar Test Series.

New Delhi, Mar.28 (ANI): Mirroring the impact of the recent reforms initiated by the government to boost growth, CII Business Confidence Index, which had slipped below the psychological 50 level mark in the third-quarter of the current fiscal, rose to 51.3 in the final quarter.

Washington, Mar. 27 (ANI): People, who have high concentrations of both hydrogen and methane gasses in their breath, are more likely to have a higher body mass index (BMI) and higher percentage of body fat, researchers led by an Indian-origin have claimed.

New Delhi, Mar 21 (ANI): Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Ajay Maken today said that his ministry will frame "Slum Upgradation Index" city wise and state wise for monitoring periodically the up gradation of slums in the country.

London, Mar. 20 (ANI): The height of women's heels rise and fall in parallel with the economy, fashion experts have claimed.

Islamabad, Mar. 8 (ANI): A Travel and Tourism Competitiveness report has ranked Pakistan at 112 out of 140 countries - an improvement by three ranking points, up from 125 in 2011 to 122 in 2013.