New body composition tests are replacing BMI as a more accurate way to assess health and fitness. Measuring muscle mass and ...

The body mass index, or BMI, predates the bathroom scale by more than half a century. But it has not changed with the times. The BMI was created in the 1830s before calculators and computers existed.

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One of the biggest limitations of BMI is that it doesn't differentiate between muscle and fat. Muscle weighs more than fat, ...

I am getting bent out of shape over surgeons telling patients they cannot get a knee replacement because they are above a certain BMI cutoff. Here’s a familiar scenario: A patient with a high body ...

Lung transplant patients who received a lung from obese donors had a 15-20% reduction in mortality at 1 year in one of the first studies to examine the impact of donor body mass index (BMI) and ...