Study shows people with high body fat are 78% more likely to die and three times more likely to die from heart disease, calling into question BMI's reliability as a health measure.

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 ...

Instead, they concluded that a direct measurement of body fat using a fairly inexpensive ... “For example, people who are bodybuilders can really elevate their body mass index,” Orlando said. “But ...

Is Body Roundness Index a more accurate measure of health risks than BMI? Story by Natalia Ningthoujam • 4mo. F or long, we have relied on the Body Mass Index or BMI to know about our health risks.

Body Mass Index is the most popular way health professionals determine what a “healthy weight” is for a particular individual. It’s also widely used as a risk factor for the development or ...

April 8, 2011 — -- A new way to tell how fat a person is without having to step on a scale may replace Body Mass Index, a measure that hasn't been updated for nearly 200 years. Body Mass ...

Researchers are advocating for the use of a body roundness index (BRI) to measure obesity and overall health, instead of the more widely-used body mass index (BMI).

Sept. 21 (UPI) --New research suggests that waist-to-hip ratio, and not body mass index is a better measure of healthy weight -- and may predict early death better than BMI.

Body mass index (BMI) may not provide the most accurate screening for skeletal muscle deficits among youth with pediatric‐onset inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to a study in the Journal of ...

In the 1970s, researcher Ancel Keys conducted a study with more than 7,500 participants, trying to find the most effective way to measure body fat. After testing body mass index, water ...

The proposed new measure is called “A Body Shape Index,” or ABSI, by the father-and-son team that has devised and tested it, Dr. Jesse Krakauer, an endocrinologist at Middletown Medical in ...