I'd like to note the importance here is that it is a proxy for health outcomes at a population level. Which means it can be great for clinical research. However, population measures do not necessarily ...

American children are increasingly tipping the scale, and the extra weight may be putting them at risk for immediate and future health complications, including depression, type 2 diabetes, and heart ...

Most kids tend to see their body-mass index (BMI) decline between ages 1 and 6, before starting to slowly gain weight as they grow, researchers reported recently in JAMA Network Open. (BMI is an ...

New research points to a better way to measure obesity than body mass index. Body mass index was first developed in 1832 and has been the standard way to estimate a person’s body fat since the 1980s.

Paul g. Donohue M.D. DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I lost my body mass index chart. My druggist told me to use the Internet to get another. One problem: I'm a senior citizen with no computer. Will you be so kind ...

A U-shaped relationship was found between BMI and the risk for elevated liver stiffness in older adults, with both lower and higher BMI tied to an increased risk. An optimal BMI range of 21.8-24.3 was ...