Is BMI the best way to assess weight and health? (Photo illustration: Jack Forbes/Yahoo Life; photos: Getty Images) Body mass index (BMI) is a simple tool for assessing whether an individual falls ...

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, ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." So much importance is placed on a single number: Your body mass index, or BMI, which defines your ...

ANSWER: The body mass index (BMI, which the chart was probably derived from) is a tool used to estimate body shape.

LOS ANGELES -- 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 health and ...

Waist measurement offers a better health check than BMI. It reveals visceral fat, linked to diabetes and heart issues. For ...

A new study suggests there may be a better mathematical tool for determining potential health problems linked to body fat than the nearly 200-year-old Body Mass Index. The study, published in the ...

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

A U-shaped relationship between BMI and CAR T-cell therapy outcomes was observed, with overweight patients showing poorer PFS ...