Since a BMI calculation is based solely on your height and weight, being female or male does not factor into how that number is calculated. That said, there are differences between men and women ...

For decades, body mass index has been the go-to metric for defining healthy weight ranges, but its usefulness as a reliable ...

BMI and weight-to-height indices are universally employed as markers of childhood obesity. However, BMI does not distinguish muscle mass from fat mass, and may misclassify children as overweight.

Was actor Jake Gyllenhaal overweight when he filmed Road House? Should Kansas City Chiefs' tight end Travis Kelce be considered nearly obese? According to the current definition of "overweight ...

For decades, doctors have used two numbers to determine whether a person has obesity: their weight divided by their height. The calculation, known as body mass index (BMI), has the benefit of ...

Waist-to-height ratio should be used in conjunction with BMI to assess overweight and obesity in children and adolescents, a ...

A WOMAN who’s classed as borderline “obese” has hit out at the “flawed” BMI system. Hannah, who is 5ft 10in tall and a ...

Men with gout and obesity receiving febuxostat-based ULT were less likely to achieve SU targets and more frequently experienced disease flares.

Findings of a study comparing waist circumference to BMI for predicting the development of obesity-related cancers show that ...

The size of a man’s waistband is a better predictor of cancer risk than traditional body mass index ... weight-loss injections. It comes after Nice told NHS medics to measure people’s waist-to ...