Decline in BMI, waist circumference seen in decade before dementia
Lower body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference and higher high-density lipoprotein are seen in the decade preceding ...
Scientific Research Publishing14d
Bleich, S.N., Bennett, W.L., Gudzune, K.A. and Cooper, L.A. (2012) Impact of Physician BMI on Obesity Care and Beliefs. Obesity, 20, 999-1005.
WC and WHR are common tools for measuring central obesity while BMI measures generalized obesity. Aims: The goal of this study is to assess the prevalence of obesity amongst health workers of David ...
Rolling Out16d
Why BMI doesn’t tell the full story of health
The Body Mass Index (BMI) has long been a standard tool for assessing weight-related health risks. However, growing evidence suggests that this one-size-fits-all metric does not serve all ...
Local News 817d
A new definition of obesity goes beyond BMI. What this could mean for you
You can input weight and height and obtain an individual’s BMI. Despite BMI’s ubiquity of use by health care professionals, it’s far from a perfect measure. To begin with, it measures total weight, ...
The Straits Times19d
New obesity benchmark adds body fat, organ health to BMI
a marker of health”, said Dr Adam Collins, an associate professor of nutrition at the University of Surrey who was not involved in the work. BMI is more useful on a population level rather ...
Wall Street Journal19d
Private Equity’s Grand Ambitions for U.S. Healthcare Hit Bumpy Stretch
Buyout firms spent decades making inroads into the U.S. healthcare industry ... as a rise in defaults and bankruptcies hits some of private equity’s largest investments in medicine.
Health.com20d
Experts Propose a New Definition of Obesity—and It Goes Beyond BMI
Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. A new report argues that body mass index or BMI is ...
WBUR20d
Goodbye, BMI: Experts outline new guidance for determining healthy range of body fat
People with elevated BMIs say they're relieved by experts' new guidance to downplay the use of BMI in diagnosing people with weight problems or obesity. People recovering from eating disorders say ...
Fox News20d
BMI is wrong way to measure obesity, researchers say — here’s what they recommend instead
Body mass index (BMI) has been the international standard ... People with preclinical obesity should undergo "evidence-based health counseling, monitoring of their health status over time, and ...
Scientific American21d
A Mixed Bag for Private Spaceflight, a New Spider Species and the Health Risks of Alcohol
The two landers were created by two different private companies and were released into slightly different orbits. [CLIP: “The Farmhouse,” by Silver Maple] Feltman: One of the SUV-sized landers ...
Medindia21d
Look Beyond BMI For Obesity Diagnosis and Management
The panel suggests using body fat measures and the presence of pre-existing health concerns, but warns against using BMI alone as an individual health indicator. The suggestion also suggests using ...
People21d
Scientists Suggest New Way to Help Measure Obesity Instead of Just Using Traditional BMI Metric
Meanwhile, BMI is calculated by using only two sets of data points: a patient’s height and weight, according to the National Institutes of Health. However, the new report notes that BMI can lead ...