The Yale team defined BMI-defined obesity using well-established threshold set by the Centers for Disease Control and ...

For years, body mass index (BMI) has been the standard tool for assessing obesity and cardiovascular risk. But new research ...

Body mass index (BMI) has long been a common tool for estimating a person’s relative weight status based on a simple height to weight ratio. It’s easy to calculate, widely accessible and often used to ...

"Throw away that regular scale and focus instead on knowing what your fat mass is, what your lean muscle mass is, and what ...

The ratio of a person's waist measurement compared to their height is more reliable than body mass index (BMI) at predicting ...

China: A long-term cohort study published in Diabetes Care has shed light on how changes in body mass index (BMI) from childhood to adulthood impact the risk of ...

Researchers have identified obesity hypoventilation syndrome (OHS) in a small but clinically relevant number of patients who ...

New research reveals that one in five people with normal BMIs have hidden abdominal obesity, facing 29% higher blood pressure ...

A new study suggests your weight-to-height ratio may reveal heart disease risk more accurately than BMI. Subjects with larger ...

BMI doesn’t account for fat distribution or distinguish between harmful, visceral fat and protective, subcutaneous fat. By ...