If BMI has ever labeled you overweight, a second study using gold standard body scans found better than even odds the label ...

A normal BMI can still miss abdominal fat patterns linked to a higher risk of heart disease, stroke, heart failure and other ...

For men, body fat percentage may be a better indicator of reproductive health than body mass index (BMI), according to a study.

Waist-based measurements paint a more comprehensive picture and can reclassify patients’ cardiovascular risk, a large dataset suggests.

Nearly two in 10 normal-weight Korean women perceive themselves as obese, according to a recent survey. The findings are ...

Traditional and newer adiposity measures both moderately predict 20-year diabetes risk in healthy adults, yet dysfunctional tissue markers are slightly better at predicting future cases.

Waist and waist-to-hip ratio predict cardiovascular events and deaths more accurately than BMI in 260,000 adults over 20 years ...

BMI cannot tell muscle from fat. These age-banded reference numbers can.

Waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio outperform BMI as cardiovascular risk predictors, a 260,000-person, 20-year JACC ...

HYDERABAD: More than one-third of adults assessed showed signs of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), with the condition associated with lower levels of vitamins D ...

Objectives To explore the association between occupational noise exposure the preceding year and myocardial infarction (MI) ...

Declining systolic blood pressure may serve as an important clinical indicator of concurrent cognitive decline in older women.