Some researchers believe that body fat percentage provides a more reliable indicator of the potential for obesity-related ...

Central obesity measures of waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio appear to be more accurate and consistent indicators of colorectal cancer incidence compared with BMI, according to a study ...

President Trump took to Truth Social this week to express his shock over rising rates of autism in the US. Doctors have ...

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

Dialysis Centers used data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to examine the prevalence of chronic diseases ...