A retrospective study demonstrated slightly elevated baseline fasting plasma glucose levels to be a robust marker of incident diabetes risk, even when those levels fell within the normal range.

New research suggests that factors like age, sex, body fat and the amount of sugar in your blood play a significant role in the progression from pre-diabetes to a type 2 diabetes diagnosis.

Overweight scores continue from 25-30. And over 30 is obese. Quetelet merely used this early calculation as a descriptor. He did not make any medical proclamations. The Quetelet Index became ...

A young Gen Z woman has shared her shock on social media after she was told by her doctor that she is "overweight" despite ...

A new report says only using BMI to determine if a patient has obesity leads to under-diagnosing people who are ill and ...

It's the start of another year and the body mass index (BMI) is being criticized again. This time a Lancet-commissioned group ...

A global commission of 56 medical experts is calling for redefining obesity, emphasizing more comprehensive methods than BMI, ...

BMI is used to classify individuals as underweight, healthy weight, overweight, or obese based on their height and weight. It ...

Body Mass Index, or BMI, has long been criticized as an unreliable method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts ...

Prucalopride was safe and effective in increasing the frequency of complete spontaneous bowel movements in patients with chronic idiopathic constipation, regardless of age, BMI or renal function, ...

Fall-related injuries in Australia's residential aged care could be costing the health system $325 million annually, a ...

In 1993, using data from white people in Great Britain, ages 16 to 64, the World Health Organization (WHO) designated BMI ...