Despite the latter overcoming some of the drawbacks of the former, experts say it’s not that simple, or maybe even necessary, ...

If you had a health check-up recently, you might have been told that you're underweight, overweight or obese based on your body mass index or BMI. But the BMI was never intended as a diagnostic tool.

The study suggests that body mass index (BMI), which doesn’t factor in abdominal fat, is an outmoded way of assessing obesity. Middle-aged and older adults who carry excess fat around their ...

Question: I read that physicians were moving away from the body mass index. But at my last physical, my BMI was used. Is my ...

Background 10% of postmenopausal breast cancer cases are attributed to a high body mass index (BMI). BMI underestimates body ...

They say BRI may be a more accurate predictor of heart disease and death than using body mass index (BMI). BMI is a widely used, but recently controversial, measurement that uses someone's ...

According to a study published in the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, there are two specific habits that are associated with a lower body mass index (BMI ...

For long, we have relied on the Body Mass Index or BMI to know about our health risks. It takes a person's height and weight ...

BRI is an abdominal obesity-related index that combines waist circumference and height, reflecting the proportion of abdominal and visceral fat. In contrast, body mass index (BMI) only measures ...

It expresses the views and opinions of the author. The online calculator is based on Glia’s Unified Interactions Index, a new, more effective way for financial institutions to define and measure ...