Excess weight may increase the risk of developing breast cancer among postmenopausal women with cardiovascular disease, ...

BMI, or body mass index, is an outdated measurement that fails to properly identify health risks, according to a new study.

A new study compares body mass index (BMI) with body fat percentage and finds the latter is far more reliable in predicting ...

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Women with higher levels of body fat sometimes struggle to conceive and can face greater health risks during pregnancy.

The higher a person’s body mass index (BMI), the higher their risk for complications after bariatric surgery, such as higher rates of emergency department visits and readmissions, according to a study ...

New research reveals that excess weight is linked to an especially high risk of developing breast cancer in postmenopausal women with cardiovascular disease. The findings are published by Wiley online ...

Results show that body fat analysis did indeed predict people’s risk of death from any cause and, specifically, for heart ...

BMI has long been used as a standard measure of obesity, endorsed by the United States Centers for Disease Control and ...

A new study reports that measurements that detect body fat are a more accurate predictor of mortality risk than body mass ...

They pointed out that BMI can classify some people with a “normal” BMI, even when they have a high percentage of body fat. A ...

A new University of Florida Health study shows that body mass index, or BMI—commonly used to measure obesity and health ...