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 ...

Body mass index, or BMI, is often promoted as a key measure of health, but clinicians are increasingly understanding its flaws and moving toward more comprehensive markers. In 2023, research in the ...

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

Body mass index, the most common measure of obesity, may be woefully inadequate. May 2, 2010— -- The scale of the obesity epidemic may be much worse than currently believed since the usual ...

"Further to this, BMI cannot assess for visceral fat, and someone with a normal BMI may not have an accurate depiction of ...

(CNN) — When it comes to measuring weight, BMI is the acronym everyone loves to hate. Health professionals have long used body mass index as a quick screening tool to fast-track certain patients into ...

BMI is calculated by dividing your weight in kilograms by the square of your height in meters, and it usually does not ...

WASHINGTON — A high BMI, or body mass index, is one of the underlying health conditions that can qualify you for a vaccine in D.C., Virginia, and now in Maryland. With about 40% of U.S. adults ...

“It’s scary to think that we may have been using a surrogate — BMI — that may not have been all that accurate over the years," one doctor says. “It’s scary to think that we may have been using a ...