World medical experts say there is a better way to look at body weight than BMI. Trump nominee Kash Patel touches parents’ ...

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

Background: The association between body mass index (BMI) and the risk of cognitive impairment remains uncertain. Relatively few studies have analyzed the dose–response relationship between BMI and ...

Is obesity a disease? How could it be better defined? A commission of 56 global experts from 'The Lancet' magazine has set ...

We classified subjects into weight change profiles according to baseline body mass index (BMI) categories and weight change over 20 years. We estimated trajectories of lung function over time as a ...

One tool doctors have long used for measuring ideal body weight is body mass index (BMI). It's a measure of your body weight in kilograms divided by the square of your height in meters.

Urging an overhaul of how obesity is diagnosed, a Lancet Global Commission report has recommended a new, nuanced approach that looks at measures of body fat such as waist circumference or waist-to ...

The Body Mass Index (or BMI) is a way of seeing if your ... diagnosis made by a user based on the content of the BBC Health website. The BBC is not liable for the contents of any external internet ...

The proposed changes, announced on Wednesday, have been five years in the making and aim to reframe obesity by moving beyond Body Mass Index (BMI) calculations. The authors determined that ...

Police officers must have a body mass index (BMI) of less than 28 to be considered for promotion, says Inspector-General of Police Razarudin Husain. In a Berita Harian report, he said the BMI ...