Lower body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference and higher high-density lipoprotein are seen in the decade preceding ...

New research challenges everything we thought we knew about weight and longevity. Scientific evidence now shows that fitness levels trump BMI when predicting how long you'll live.

Fasting plasma glucose (FPG), age, body mass index (BMI), and male sex are all associated with development of diabetes.

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 ...