A new study compares body mass index (BMI) with body fat percentage and finds the latter is far more reliable in predicting ...

Asian and Pacific Islander adolescents who are overweight or obese are twice as likely as their white peers to have ...

The global prevalence of OA attributed to high BMI has steadily increased over the past 3 decades, particularly among women and in high-SDI regions.

BMI has long been used as a standard measure of obesity, endorsed by the United States Centers for Disease Control and ...

BMI, or body mass index, is an outdated measurement that fails to properly identify health risks, according to a new study.

A new study reports that measurements that detect body fat are a more accurate predictor of mortality risk than body mass ...

Breast cancer patients may have inferior recurrence-free survival after neoadjuvant chemotherapy if they are overweight or obese at diagnosis.

Multimodal AOMs were associated with the highest preoperative weight loss among patients with high BMI undergoing bariatric surgery.

The higher a person’s body mass index (BMI), the higher their risk for complications after bariatric surgery, such as higher ...