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

When you go in for a wellness exam, oftentimes the first things the medical assistant does is take your height and weight.

Johns Hopkins University researchers have found that nearly all adults identified as having obesity based on body mass index ...

The mBCA Alpha scanner is an alternative to screenings that rely on weight and body mass index to understand the risk of ...

It has long been a well-established and well-documented fact that obesity — a complex, chronic disease which involves the ...

Body mass index (BMI) is the tool doctors use to calculate whether someone is underweight, at a healthy weight, overweight or obese. But because BMI calculations can't tell the difference between body ...

A new analysis links higher triglyceride-glucose (TyG) and TyG–body mass index (TyG-BMI) levels to increased colorectal ...

New research shows that the social and academic environments of high school can leave a lasting imprint on adult body weight.

Researchers consider the weight-adjusted waist index a more precise predictor of mortality risk in patients with ...

A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Tsukuba revealed that the use of a gamified sleep-tracking mobile application led to improvements in sleep parameters and a reduction in ...

Apremilast treatment in patients with psoriatic arthritis leads to favorable changes in body composition and improves disease ...