Being obese at the time of MGUS diagnosis was associated with a 27% increase in the risk of progression to MM.

As BMI is increasingly recognized as an imperfect way to measure health, UVA researchers share other metrics they rely upon.

It's the start of another year and the body mass index (BMI) is being criticized again. This time a Lancet-commissioned group of experts is denouncing it as a diagnostic tool for obesity.

Malaysia’s police force is once more battling the bulge as it adds body mass index (BMI) – a metric for body fat – as a requirement for climbing up the ranks. Officers in the Royal Malaysian ...

A normal BMI is between 18.5 and 24.9. A BMI of 30 and above is considered obese. Fearing bariatric surgery for years, he had resorted to weight-loss drugs like semaglutide (this is the active ...

Currently, the BMI cutoff is 30 for the increasingly popular GLP-1 drugs. David J. Phillip/AP file Share Doctors should stop relying solely on a patient’s body mass index to diagnose obesity and ...

The WHO recommends that healthcare workers assess whether people have obesity by calculating their body mass index (BMI), a measure of weight relative to height. A BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 is ...

Turns out, you can’t outrun diabetes with a low BMI. In a sweeping study of nearly 45,000 participants, researchers set out to determine what drives the progression from prediabetes to diabetes ...

Researchers conducted subgroup analyses to examine moderator variables like body mass index (BMI), exercise type, and energy intake. They also considered the risk for bias in each of the examined ...

One tool doctors have long used for measuring ideal body weight is body mass index (BMI). It's a measure of your body weight in kilograms divided by the square of your height in meters.

Additionally, comprehensive blood tests will be conducted, and deficiencies will be corrected gradually based on results and BMI (calculated as weight divided by height squared). According to the ...