A recently published LongITools study led by the University of Oulu identified two new childhood BMI patterns, challenging ...

Dementia cases had lower BMI and waist circumference and faster declines; HDL levels generally higher predementia.

In 2021, over 15 million children and young adolescents and 172 million adults were overweight or obese. This represents a ...

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

The actual calculation is your weight (in kilograms) divided by your height (in metres) squared but it's also easy to read on the chart. BMI can be divided into several categories and generally ...

A global commission gathered by The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology magazine argues that BMI, the conventional method for assessing obesity, yields inaccurate results. They recommend confirming ...

But this measure, called body mass index, or BMI, lacks nuance and fails to tell whether a person is truly healthy, a global commission of medical experts said in a paper published Tuesday in The ...

While body mass index (BMI) is often used to estimate body fat, it’s not always an accurate method of doing so. Some ...

Body mass index, or BMI, has long been criticized as a flawed method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts is sharing new recommendations. BMI is a formula that uses a person's ...

The postpartum period presents a critical window to mitigate the long-term risk of metabolic disorders in women with a history of gestational diabetes ...