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 ...

In a video, the two doctors refer to something called the string test. It involves taking a piece of string, standing on one ...

BMI doesn’t account for fat distribution or distinguish between harmful, visceral fat and protective, subcutaneous fat. By ...

The ratio of a person's waist measurement compared to their height is more reliable than body mass index (BMI) at predicting heart disease risk, according to new research from UPMC and University of ...

Unlike many other diseases, there are no set guidelines on treatment targets for obesity, and outcomes often rely on ...

A pair of doctors have teamed up to show a simple trick which could be better tool to measure someone's health than body mass ...

A pair of doctors have revealed a simple trick that could be a better gauge of someone's health than the body mass index (BMI ...

Using waist-to-height ratio is more effective at predicting an individual’s heart disease risk than body mass index (BMI), ...

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 ...

While obesity is a known risk factor for heart disease, a new study showed that the ratio of a person's waist measurement compared to their height is more reliable than body mass index (BMI) at ...

Monitoring your health begins with understanding your body composition, and one of the simplest ways to do that is by using a BMI calculator.