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

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

New research challenges everything we thought we knew about weight and longevity. Scientific evidence now shows that fitness ...

Obesity and heart failure often go together, making treatment more complicated. Now, health experts have released new ...

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

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

Body mass index (BMI) may not be the most accurate predictor of death risk. A new study from the University of Florida found ...

They pointed out that BMI can classify some people with a “normal” BMI, even when they have a high percentage of body fat. A ...

Results show that body fat analysis did indeed predict people’s risk of death from any cause and, specifically, for heart ...

But a movement to shift away from BMI as a measure of individual health risk alone is gaining steam: Last week, the American Medical Association adopted a new policy on the index, noting ...

BMI (body mass index) has long been thought of as an indicator of how healthy someone is. The truth is a little more complicated, doctors say.