Maintaining a healthy weight is an essential part of overall well-being. But while most health conversations revolve around ...

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health ...

We break down the history behind BMI and how body fat percentage relates to your health. Read more to get a better ...

How do I calculate my BMI? Benefits of a BMI calculator Body Mass Index (BMI), also known as an obesity indicator, can help medical experts determine if their patient is underweight, overweight or ...

Key predictors were DXA-derived android-to-gynoid-fat ratio (A/G) and total body fat percentage (TBF ... and while maintaining as straight posture. Body mass index (BMI) was subsequently calculated.

In contrast to weight gain, obese (but not overweight or normal BMI) adults at baseline who lost weight during follow-up exhibited an attenuation of FVC decline (panel C in figure 1). We estimated ...

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

Central obesity measures of waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio appear to be more accurate and consistent indicators of colorectal cancer incidence compared with BMI, according to a study ...

Body weight and body mass index alone are not enough to predict whether someone will develop a metabolic disease. A new atlas of cells in fat tissue could help to explain why some overweight people ...

One of the inadequacies of using body mass index (BMI) as a predictive factor is that “current BMI-based measures of obesity can both underestimate and overestimate” a persons ...

"Excessive weight is not always a problem in itself; it can simply be a gateway to a host of other issues. So why ...