For most healthy women, optimal fasting insulin levels should be less than 25 mIU/L (milli-international units per liter), ...

Higher than normal blood ammonia levels are called hyperammonemia. Acceptable levels depend on age and sex but range from about 42 µg/dL in infants to 200 µg/dL adults assigned male at birth. When you ...

“Normal” levels of vitamin B12 may not be enough to ward off dementia, new research finds. Researchers at the University of California San Francisco studied 231 healthy older adults (averaging 71 ...

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Your kidney function test results are a measure of how well your kidneys are working to filter your blood and remove excess water and waste from the body. For example, the estimated glomerular ...

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When the U.S. wrestler and actor Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was in his prime, his Body Mass Index (BMI) was around 33 kg/m², technically ‘obese’ by World Health Organization (WHO) standards. Yet no one ...

A mobile lab monitoring for air pollution at the site of the Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, found one potential chemical of concern at higher levels than normal, a team of ...