A large study published in The Lancet Regional Health – Americas shows that waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) is a stronger and ...

Is BMI the best way to assess weight and health? (Photo illustration: Jack Forbes/Yahoo Life; photos: Getty Images) Body mass index (BMI) is a simple tool for assessing whether an individual falls ...

Monitoring your health begins with understanding your body composition, and one of the simplest ways to do that is by using a BMI calculator.

The Yale team defined BMI-defined obesity using well-established threshold set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatric ...

Higher body mass index (BMI) after diagnosis is linked to better survival outcomes in patients with localized renal cell ...

What's your number -- under 25 or over 35? Body mass index (BMI) may not be a term that's on everyone's lips, but it's important for your health to understand what it is and to know your number.

A new study suggests there may be a better mathematical tool for determining potential health problems linked to body fat than the nearly 200-year-old Body Mass Index. The study, published in the ...

In the world of health metrics, BMI, or Body Mass Index, has long been the go-to measure for assessing obesity. But there's a new metric on the horizon: the Body Roundness Index, or BRI that some say ...

The Body Roundness Index is a novel body composition measurement that is touted as being a more accurate alternative to Body Mass Index. In a large retrospective study of 33,000 US adults, researchers ...

Assam Police has recorded a further decline in the number of personnel falling under the 'obese' category in its annual Body ...

Assam Police's annual BMI test revealed over 2% of its 73,000-strong force is obese, a figure showing a steady decline since the initiative began in 2023. Director General Harmeet Singh emphasized the ...