As BMI is increasingly recognized as an imperfect way to measure health, UVA researchers share other metrics they rely upon.

In 2021, over 15 million children and young adolescents and 172 million adults were overweight or obese. This represents a ...

We break down the history behind BMI and how body fat percentage relates to your health. Read more to get a better ...

The famed cherry blossoms on the University of Washington campus in Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) The fight ...

Patty Murray (D-Washington ... a longtime cancer researcher at Vanderbilt University, predicting that the policy shift would have both health and economic consequences. “Many people will ...

Lower body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference and higher high-density lipoprotein are seen in the decade preceding diagnosis of dementia, according to a study published online Feb. 7 in JAMA ...

Dementia cases had lower BMI and waist circumference and faster declines; HDL levels generally higher predementia ...

The postpartum period presents a critical window to mitigate the long-term risk of metabolic disorders in women with a history of gestational diabetes ...

In the latest move in that direction, Livi will now be deployed by BMI Healthcare, the UK’s largest private health chain with more than 50 hospitals across the country serving millions of patients.

In West Virginia, a nonprofit mental health program for teenage girls is turning to a private donor to help cover its expenses. Three Virginia health clinics have shut their doors. And a network ...

Using a formula or BMI calculator, it is relatively easy to plug in height and weight measurements and get a figure meant to represent a measure of body fat and, by extension, related health risks.

A study of over 458,000 individuals finds that waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio are stronger predictors of ...