If you've ever stood on a scale at the doctor's office only to be told your health status based on a single number, you're not alone. For decades, we've been conditioned to believe that Body Mass ...

SUNDAY, May 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Body Mass Index, or BMI, is a number that reflects the relationship between your height and weight. It's widely used in healthcare and public health to ...

For decades, body mass index (BMI) has been the dominant tool for defining obesity, despite longstanding concerns that it poorly reflects individual health risk. Growing evidence suggests that the ...

Body mass index is widely used to assess the human body’s obesity, health, fitness, eligibility as a surgical candidate or ...

It’s the main calculation used to assess healthy body weight and helps determine eligibility for in-demand GLP-1 weight-loss drugs. It’s also imprecise at best, misleading at worst, say doctors.

Excess body weight appears to be a direct cause of vascular dementia, with the damage largely driven by high blood pressure.

A study found that Americans today are less likely to recognize overweight status than they were in previous decades, ...

Body mass index, or BMI, has been used by medical professionals since the 1990s to classify whether individuals are a healthy weight, overweight, or obese. A BMI calculation is included in virtually ...

Because knowledge is power when it comes to fitness.

Lower body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference and higher high-density lipoprotein are seen in the decade preceding diagnosis of dementia, according to a study published online Feb. 7 in JAMA ...