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

What makes a man’s body attractive? A new international study explored this question using body scans and evolutionary models ...

Study shows people with high body fat are 78% more likely to die and three times more likely to die from heart disease, ...

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

Body mass index for men by race categories from the National Health Interview Survey, 1992–1995. Each box corresponds to the interquartile range of the data, the 25th to 75th percentiles, and ...

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

A medical check-up begins once a patient walks into a doctor’s office. There are various things the doctors take note of, and ...

Background Immune-mediated processes leading to childhood type 1 diabetes may begin in fetal life. We hypothesised that a ...

Investigating smoking cessation and waist circumference, this study highlights the role of leisure-time physical activity in ...

BMI is a measurement of a person's leanness or corpulence based on their height and weight, and is intended to quantify tissue mass. BMI is used to classify adults under the following categories – ...