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.

The report, published in the Annals of Family Medicine in June, found that BMI is unreliable at predicting a person’s risk of ...

Health is not a one way street, what may look healthy to certain people, may be opposite for others. While BMI has been used ...

Menopausal women with larger waist circumference had a greater risk for death regardless of their BMI category, according to ...

They pointed out that BMI can classify some people with a “normal” BMI, even when they have a high percentage of body fat. A normal weight is a BMI between 18.5 to 24.9, overweight is between 25 and ...

Medically reviewed by Amelia MacIntyre, DO The body mass index (BMI) chart helps determine obesity levels in both women and men. Healthcare providers also use it to determine whether their patients ...

(If you are mathematically challenged like I am, the National Institutes of Health has a free calculator.)In BMI-world, a body mass between 18.5 and 24.9 is a healthy weight, between 25 and 29.9 ...

Although ‘lean type 2 diabetes’ is not uncommon, clinicians must first exclude other causes including autoimmune, monogenic, ...