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

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

Higher body mass index (BMI) after diagnosis is linked to better survival outcomes in patients with localized renal cell ...

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

South Asians have a four-times greater risk of heart disease compared to the general population. While traditional risk factors such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and high cholesterol are ...

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

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 ...

Share on Pinterest Weight gain and heart disease may affect breast cancer risk after menopause. Image credit: Vera Lair/Getty Images. Researchers from the International Agency for Research on Cancer ...

BOSTON — 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 ...

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“It’s scary to think that we may have been using a surrogate — BMI — that may not have been all that accurate over the years," one doctor says. “It’s scary to think that we may have been using a ...