They pointed out that BMI can classify some people with a “normal” BMI, even when they have a high percentage of body fat. A ...

Our body mass index is categorized into underweight, normal, overweight, and obese based on data largely from white middle-aged men—decades ago. SCIENCE; ...

But a new study says it might be time to toss that metric aside for good. CNN reported that researchers from the University ...

When it comes to measuring weight, BMI is the acronym everyone loves to hate, but authors of a new study say a different ...

Body mass index (BMI) may not be the most accurate predictor of death risk. A new study from the University of Florida found ...

For many people, no matter what doctor you're seeing, the routine is essentially the same. You enter the room, sit down on the medical exam paper, get your blood pressure taken, then step on the scale ...

A new University of Florida Health study shows that body mass index, or BMI—commonly used to measure obesity and health ...

Objective Type 2 diabetes mellitus is increasing in young adults, and greater adiposity is considered a major risk factor. However, whether there is an association between obesity and diabetes and how ...

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Mia Golam Parwar has called on party activists to build a mass wave of support for the party's election symbol, Scale (Daripalla), ahead of the next ...

Body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) have positive and negative associations with diabetic complications among people with type 2 diabetes (T2D), according to study results published in ...