As BMI is increasingly recognized as an imperfect way to measure health, UVA researchers share other metrics they rely upon.

New research from the UK Biobank has uncovered significant differences in how obesity affects bone health in older men and women, potentially changing how healthcare providers approach osteoporosis ...

built on Quetelet’s work in his study that analysed a dozen samples of 7,426 men and formally coined the term, Body Mass Index. BMI is the ratio of weight in kilograms and square of height in ...

In total, there are four BMI ranges and categories that apply to all adults — both men and women — aged 20 and older: Body fat percentage is a little more complicated to work out than BMI.

In 2022, nearly 900 million adults worldwide had ... (0.85 for women and 0.90 for men), or the waist-to-height ratio (above 0.5). "In people with very high BMI (ie, >40 kg/m 2), however, excess ...

Heart disease is once again the leading cause of death in the U.S., according to a new statistical report from the American ...

If an adult has a BMI of 30 or above ... measurement of more than 34.6 inches likely has excess body fat, while men with a waist circumference of at least 40 inches also likely have too much ...

Obesity can cause many serious medical conditions – 18 conditions in adults ... than BMI. A simple one is waist circumference. A measure in excess of 102 centimetres for men and 88 centimetres ...

A study of more than 11,000 adults found that people who ... at Newcastle University, says that “men develop type 2 diabetes at a lower BMI than do women”. However, at menopause, things ...

The Intersection of Obesity and Plastic Surgery Obesity within the United States has become a huge public health venture, ...