BMI is not an accurate predictor of health because it does not account for body fat percentage or body fat distribution. In addition, BMI cannot accurately predict the health of different demographics ...

When you go in for a wellness exam, oftentimes the first things the medical assistant does is take your height and weight. With this data, the computer spits out your body mass index (BMI) number.

WASHINGTON — A high BMI, or body mass index, is one of the underlying health conditions that can qualify you for a vaccine in D.C., Virginia, and now in Maryland. With about 40% of U.S. adults ...

Is BMI the best way to assess weight and health? (Photo illustration: Jack Forbes/Yahoo Life; photos: Getty Images) Body mass index (BMI) is a simple tool for assessing whether an individual falls ...

The Yale team defined BMI-defined obesity using well-established threshold set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatric ...

A new study suggests your weight-to-height ratio may reveal heart disease risk more accurately than BMI. Subjects with larger ...

A new study on the worldwide prevalence of ‘abdominal obesity’ tied belly fat in ‘normal’ weight people to hypertension, diabetes, and high cholesterol.

Good health news always seems in short supply as you get older. So I was willing to take it as a win when my primary care doctor commented awhile back, “Well, at least you’ve aged out of early-onset ...