Body mass index (BMI) is a widely-used screening tool to estimate body fat using height and weight. It categorizes people as “underweight,” “normal weight,” “overweight” and “obese” based on these ...

BRI compares your waistline to your height, giving a score somewhere between one and 20 For years, we’ve been told that BMI is the final word on whether or not someone can be deemed a healthy weight ...

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

What's your number -- under 25 or over 35? Body mass index (BMI) may not be a term that's on everyone's lips, but it's important for your health to understand what it is and to know your number.

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

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 percentage is a measure of how much body fat someone has relative to ...

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.

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 ...

This month, the Trump administration instructed immigration officials to deem applicants ineligible for a visa if they are obese or have diabetes, the authors write.

They tell us about distressing experiences seeing obesity or overweight highlighted as a diagnosis for an encounter in which ...

A retrospective analysis of anti–B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA) chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR T) therapy outcomes ...