Last year, The Lancet helped catalyse this overdue change by recommending that BMI alone should not be used to measure ...

BMI has long been controversial among healthcare professionals—yet the obsession with how to calculate BMI persists. For these reasons as well as the influence of environmental, hormonal, and mental ...

Recent research demonstrates that comparing waist circumference to height could provide a more accurate picture than the body ...

SUNDAY, May 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Body Mass Index, or BMI, is a number that reflects the relationship between your height and weight. It's widely used in healthcare and public health to ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been tracking obesity rates, as measured by BMI, since the 1980s, ...

Perimenopausal fasting insulin and body mass index (BMI) are associated with distinct menopausal changes, according to a new study.

Elevated body mass index (BMI) and physical inactivity are metabolic drivers of hypertension-related chronic kidney disease (HT-CKD), with elevated BMI exerting a greater impact, according to a study ...

A recently-published study suggests that a body "roundness" index may be a better measure of health than body mass index (BMI). The article, called "Body Roundness Index and All-Cause Mortality Among ...

A new study suggests there may be a better mathematical tool for determining potential health problems linked to body fat than the nearly 200-year-old Body Mass Index. The study, published in the ...

People classed as “overweight” according to BMI can be perfectly healthy. But there are better measures of fat, and physicians are finally using them ...