Breast cancer patients may have inferior recurrence-free survival after neoadjuvant chemotherapy if they are overweight or obese at diagnosis.

For decades, BMI has been a way to measure whether someone is at a healthy weight. In general, people are considered overweight if their BMI is over 25. If their BMI is over 30, they have obesity. [1] ...

BMI, or body mass index, is an outdated measurement that fails to properly identify health risks, according to a new study.

Study shows people with high body fat are 78% more likely to die and three times more likely to die from heart disease, ...

A new study reports that measurements that detect body fat are a more accurate predictor of mortality risk than body mass ...

A new University of Florida Health study shows that body mass index, or BMI—commonly used to measure obesity and health ...

They pointed out that BMI can classify some people with a “normal” BMI, even when they have a high percentage of body fat. A ...

An individual is considered obese if their BMI is 30 or above, overweight if it is between 25 and 29.9, of "normal" weight in the range of 18.5 to 24.9, or underweight if lower than 18.5.

METHODS: BMI parameters describing the timing, velocity minimum (min) and maximum (max) values from 2 to 25 y of age were related to adulthood BMI values and total and percentage body fat (TBF ...

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