The Body Mass Index (BMI) has long been a standard tool for assessing weight-related health risks. However, growing evidence suggests that this one-size-fits-all metric does not serve all communities ...

For decades, health experts have relied on body mass index (BMI), a ratio of weight to height, to classify people as underweight, normal weight, overweight or obese. But sometimes, you need more than ...

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According to standard calculations, my husband's body mass index (BMI) is too high. Yet he is the fittest person I know—an athlete carrying plenty of muscle and very little fat. Therein lies the ...

Share on Pinterest Research suggests that Body Mass Index (BMI) may not be an accurate indicator for predicting obesity among adults. Luis Alvarez/Getty Images Researchers investigated the accuracy of ...

It’s a dirty word for some: BMI. Short for body mass Index, BMI is nothing more than a crude measurement of a person’s body fat based on height and weight. It was invented for researchers to use on ...

Obese white men are about half as likely as normal-weight white men to have a total PSA level of 4 ng/mL or higher, a commonly used criterion for recommending a prostate biopsy, according to ...

In 2022, researchers with The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology formed a Commission of 56 international experts to develop a more useful clinical definition of obesity. The Commission released their ...

Among patients with heart failure (HF), those taking dapaglifozin or empaglifozin had a 30% odds reduction in HF hospitalization, 14% odds reduction in cardiovascular mortality, and a 10% odds ...