A new report notes that the amount of belly fat a patient has is a more useful metric for determining obesity than ...

The number does not capture a person's muscle mass; where on their body fat is stored; or how their race, ethnicity and ...

Body mass index became the standard in medicine in the 1970s for assessing whether a human being is overweight. The problem is that the testing that created the modern-day standard used worldwide ...

Body composition refers to the percentages body fat, bone, and lean tissue mass (basically, the muscle, organs, water, and ...

The recommendation signals a long-awaited shift from a single imperfect metric towards a more personalised ... of the group’s members. The body mass index (BMI), a weight-to-height ratio ...

People with pockets of fat hidden inside their muscles are at a higher risk of dying or being hospitalized from a heart attack or heart failure, regardless of their body mass index, according to new ...

The healthy weight range is based on a measurement known as the body mass index (BMI ... squared but it's also easy to read on the chart. BMI can be divided into several categories and generally ...

The proposed changes, announced on Wednesday, have been five years in the making and aim to reframe obesity by moving beyond Body Mass Index (BMI ... and "easy metric" but was not enough.

Chances are, a doctor has at one point measured your Body Mass Index ... actuarial tables based on height and weight, and used data from their mostly white policyholders. So the metric is deeply ...

Then there’s the mounting scientific evidence that weight–and, accordingly, body mass index ... or obese by the BMI chart, but at the population level, the metric is “pretty tightly ...