Women with higher risk pregnancies are to have their antenatal care moved from Portiuncula Hospital in Galway to other ...

About 1 in 5 classified as overweight based on BMI alone considered to have obesity according to European society definition.

Women with higher levels of body fat sometimes struggle to conceive and can face greater health risks during pregnancy.

When it comes to measuring weight, BMI is the acronym everyone loves to hate, but authors of a new study say a different ...

(CNN) — When it comes to measuring weight, BMI is the acronym everyone loves to hate. Health professionals have long used body mass index as a quick screening tool to ...

BMI, or body mass index, is an outdated measurement that fails to properly identify health risks, according to a new study. Measuring body fat may be just as easy.

The problem with BMI BMI is measured by dividing your weight by the square of your height. (If you are mathematically challenged like I am, the National Institutes of Health has a free calculator ...

The issue is that BMI measures health risk by calculating height and weight. However, muscle and bone weigh more than fat, so BMI measurements can overestimate the danger for people with a muscular ...

When it comes to measuring weight, BMI is the acronym everyone loves to hate. Health professionals have long used body mass index as a quick screening tool to fast-track certain patients into a “code ...

The issue is that BMI measures health risk by calculating height and weight. However, muscle and bone weigh more than fat, so BMI measurements can overestimate the danger for people with a ...

A retrospective analysis published in the June 2025 issue of Clinical Research in Cardiology about obesity that had been prevalent in heart failure (HF), contributing to reduced QoL and increased ...