When it comes to measuring weight, BMI is the acronym everyone loves to hate. Health professionals have long used body mass index as a quick screening tool to fast-track certain patients into a “code ...

Adolescents who achieved a BMI reduction of at least 10% at 26 weeks with a reduced-calorie diet had significant decreases in ...

For years, medical experts have defined obesity primarily based on body mass index, which measures stored fat by calculating height and weight, to determine a person’s health risks. Major public ...

Obesity severity is incrementally associated with a broad range of cardiometabolic and renal disease burden, as discovered by ...

New criteria that put greater emphasis on body composition to diagnose obesity show greater prevalence of the disease in the ...

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

A large study published in The Lancet Regional Health – Americas shows that waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) is a stronger and ...

This would not be the first time that public-health experts have prematurely celebrated the peak of America’s obesity crisis.