Your Body Mass Index (BMI) is often an indicator to diagnose obesity. Combating obesity is paramount to overall health. According to The National Health Institute, 1 in 3 adults are considered ...

BMI misclassifies athletic bodies. New research calls for revised BMI cut-offs to better assess young male athletes’ health ...

Variations in bacterial genera in the small bowel of those spanning normal weight to obesity suggest a correlation between ...

Waist circumference is a stronger predictor of obesity-related cancer risk than BMI in men, but not in women, due to ...

Johns Hopkins University researchers have found that nearly all adults identified as having obesity based on body mass index ...

New research to be presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2025, Malaga, Spain, 11-14 May) shows that the internationally recognized body mass index (BMI) cut-off points greatly ...

New research presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2025, Malaga, Spain, 11–14 May) shows that the ...

Among the 2,225 adults in the study, all under 60 years of age, 39.7% had obesity as defined only by higher BMI, while 39.1% had confirmed excess adiposity when using diagnostic criteria recently laid ...

Nearly all U.S. adults with obesity as diagnosed by BMI also have an elevated waist circumference or excess body fat, ...

We’re used to hearing the medical community talk about our BMI (Body Mass Index) as a way to determine if we’re obese.  The ...