What is BMI, and what have been criticisms of its usage? How is the new definition different? In what ways could it change clinical care? Will these changes be forthcoming? And while revisions are ...

Then they have a separate scale of measures for obesity and severe obesity, both of those are measured by skin fold thickness rather than BMI, meaning you could be classed as obese without even ...

Findings of a study comparing waist circumference to BMI for predicting the development of obesity-related cancers show that ...

Body mass index did not impact the safety and efficacy of etrasimod in patients with ulcerative colitis, according to 2 studies.

For decades, body mass index has been the go-to metric for defining healthy weight ranges, but its usefulness as a reliable ...

A major new study from Sweden has found that waist circumference (WC)—a simple measure of abdominal fat—may be a more ...