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 ...

Waist-to-height ratio ‘outperforms’ BMI in identification of serious health risks, analysis of over 120,000 people suggests ...

In daily practice, physicians need a quick and simple way to assess whether a patient's weight presents a health risk. For decades, the body mass index (BMI) has been used for this purpose, with ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The American Medical Association is clarifying the role of a person's body mass index, also known as BMI. The group is urging doctors to de-emphasize its use when assessing ...

This article was reviewed by Craig Primack, MD, FACP, FAAP, FOMA. We’ll start at the very beginning: Body mass index (BMI) is a measure of someone’s weight compared to their height whereas body fat ...

Individuals with higher than ideal body weight or body mass index (BMI) have an increased risk for low back pain (LBP).

During the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, Ilona Maher was a breakout star, an athletic marvel who possessed an astonishing combination of speed and strength. As the 27-year-old member of Team ...

Researchers at Leipzig University and the University of Gothenburg have developed a novel approach to assessing an individual ...

Do muscles make the man? New research reveals that body fat and BMI play a bigger role in male attractiveness than most ...