Body mass index (BMI) may not be the most accurate predictor of death risk. A new study from the University of Florida found ...

A new study compares body mass index (BMI) with body fat percentage and finds the latter is far more reliable in predicting ...

Discover how smoking during pregnancy may increase childhood obesity risk, according to new research from Washington State ...

A group of global health experts are proposing changes to how ... BMI has been a cornerstone of obesity ... an obesity expert at the University of Washington and one of the 58 authors ...

Complications associated with obesity have become one of the leading causes of healthcare spending, — in the past 30 years, there’s been a 140% increase in spending. In 2021, 335,000 deaths ...

The new definitions are likely to be confusing, said Kate Bauer, a nutrition expert at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. “The public likes and needs simple messages.

Under recommendations released Tuesday night, obesity would no longer be defined solely by BMI, a calculation of height and weight, but combined with other measurements, such as waist ...

BMI is a person’s weight in kilograms divided by the square of their height in meters.. A BMI of 30 or higher is considered obese, while a BMI of 40 or above is considered severely obese. A ...

Despite BMI’s ubiquity of use by health care professionals, it’s far from a perfect measure. To begin with, it measures total weight, rather than the weight attributed to fatty tissue.

A BMI of 30 or above generally classifies adults as having obesity, according to the WHO. (The recommended cutoff is 27.5 in Asians.) But the metric represents weight divided by height squared ...