The current BMI calculation gives tall people the short end of the stick, an Oxford mathematician says. Body mass index, or BMI, has long been used as the quickest measure of whether a person’s weight ...

Body mass index (BMI) is an estimate of body fat based on height and weight. It doesn’t measure body fat directly, but instead uses an equation to make an approximation. BMI can help determine whether ...

Despite its flaws, BMI is widely used in medical settings and well known by the public because as a screening tool it’s easy ...

Weight loss programs are gaining popularity because of the increasing awareness about health. However, weight alone is not an accurate measurement of one's health status, which is why health experts ...

To document changes in body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) over a 10-year period 1998–2008, in representative surveys of adults. Subjects with data available on BMI/WC were 7743/6894 in ...

Adults over 65 at the high end of the healthy body mass index (BMI) range were at lower risk of mortality, and those at the low end were at highest risk, according to a recent meta-analysis. The ...