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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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).

Recent research found that BMI is not a good predictor of mortality, adding to a growing body of evidence against the health ...

For decades now, obesity has been defined by a number on a scale or where you land on the body mass index (BMI) measure. But ...

For years, body-mass-index (BMI), has been the health metric millions of us have been fixated on when it comes to determining the state of our health. But now experts say we should be focusing on ...

For decades, the body mass index (BMI) has been used for this purpose, with calculations based on height and weight. ... Anthropometric Measures Only for Clinical Use.

VENICE, Italy — Obesity as defined by adiposity measures corresponds to a lower body mass index (BMI) cutoff (≥ 27) in men and women of middle age or older than does the widely used ...