The number does not capture a person's muscle mass; where on their body fat is stored; or how their race, ethnicity and ...

A commission proposed a new definition of obesity focused on how excess fat affects the body, rather than assessing body mass ...

Obesity has been an ongoing struggle for many consumers, and for years, body mass index (BMI) has been the key metric health ...

However, this classification system assumes that weight alone is a reliable indicator of health, disregarding important ...

Findings indicate a 12.8% 10-year diabetes risk, driven by fasting plasma glucose, age, sex, and BMI, highlighting the need ...

CNN: What is BMI? What are the advantages and criticisms of its usage? Dr. Leana Wen: Body mass index, or BMI, is a calculation performed by dividing a patient’s weight in kilograms by their ...

A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial ...

A new measurement tool is challenging the long-standing idea of using the Body Mass Index as a way to gauge body fat and ...

Increased intermuscular fat, not BMI, was independently associated with coronary microvascular function and major adverse CV ...