Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. woman with BIA device The 'go-to' way many clinicians measure healthy weight may be deeply flawed, according to new research. A ...

A group of 58 researchers is calling for a new, better way to measure obesity. The global team’s recommendations were published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology on Jan. 14. Body mass index (BMI) ...

The Body Mass Index (BMI) has long been a standard tool for assessing weight-related health risks. However, growing evidence suggests that this one-size-fits-all metric does not serve all communities ...

Researchers found that having higher levels of fat stored around the abdomen was more strongly associated with heart failure ...

A large proportion of the population has abdominal obesity despite a normal BMI, and these individuals are at increased cardiometabolic risk, two new studies found. “Individuals with normal BMI but ...

Waist circumference, not BMI, was tied to increased risk for adiposity-related heart failure, and the association was ...

Body Mass Index (BMI) is one of the most widely used tools to assess whether a person's weight is appropriate for their height. Yet for Indians, the interpretation of BMI is more complex than simply ...