BMI is wrong way to measure obesity, researchers say — here’s what they recommend instead
The condition is better measured by looking at factors like inflammation, insulin resistance, and glucose tolerance, ...
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BMI technology makes breakthrough in simultaneously decoding language and movement
The trial involved a 21-year-old epileptic patient with a lesion in the brain's motor area. The participant underwent a surgery to implant a 256-channel high-throughput, flexible brain-machine ...
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Want To Know If You’re Overweight? Forget BMI—Measure This, Says a Team of Experts
BMI is a 53-year-old metric that experts suggest needs an update—here's what they say is the more reliable way to determine ...
What’s more useful than BMI? All you need to know about a 2000-year-old technique to measure body composition
Body Mass Index (BMI) has limitations as it doesn't distinguish between muscle and fat, leading to misclassification of ...
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Exposure to air pollution before conception linked to higher BMI in children
Research on a cohort of Chinese mothers and their children has found exposure to elevated levels of particulate matter in the ...
Forget BMI—there's a 2,000-year-old technique for measuring body fat that's more useful
It's the start of another year and the body mass index (BMI) is being criticized again. This time a Lancet-commissioned group ...
'A terrible tool': The problem with BMI
A group of Australian and international experts are calling for a major overhaul of obesity diagnosis, saying current methods ...
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Millions of people misdiagnosed with obesity in the UK
Solely using BMI can lead to both overestimates and underestimates of ... “No system – the NHS or others – have had these ...
NHS accused of 'over-diagnosing' obesity as experts call for radical change in methods
The new system would see people categorised as having either clinical obesity, if their weight is affecting their organ ...
Anti-obesity medication: these are the surprising effects of taking Ozempic and Mounjaro
When Henry Conway hit his forties his BMI became dangerously high. After a lover said ‘I love your little dad bod’, he knew ...
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Oxford study finds an unhealthy childhood could raise dementia risk
The researchers looked at blood pressure and BMI of children when they were aged seven to 17, their physical activity levels when they were aged 11 to 15, and brain scans from young adulthood when ...
Kids as young as seven at risk of dementia due to 'unhealthy habits' decades before diagnosis
Experts warned that a person's health in mid-life can be a potential predictor for dementia in their later years ...