Higher BMI in early adulthood and midlife is linked to better memory performance, particularly in men and Black Americans, ...

The percentage of U.S. adults with obesity did not significantly rise from 2013 to 2023, though a small uptick in the rate of ...

Body mass index, or BMI, is computed by dividing your weight by your height (squared). It is generally used to help you ...

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

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 adults, an unhealthy weight is defined as a BMI of 25 or higher, and obesity is defined as a ... Overall diabetes prevalence ranged from a high of 14.5% among Hispanic men to a low of 7.7% among ...

Felicity Jones has been nominated for a Best Supporting Actress BAFTA for her role in The Brutalist, in which she plays Erzsébet, a Hungarian journalist who emigrates to the US in the late 1950s to ...

Testosterone treatment significantly reduces mortality among men with Klinefelter syndrome ... with greater effects seen in older adults. Higher dietary cholesterol intake is linked to an ...

These values are based on cisgender white men, and may need to be adjusted according to factors such as race and sex. BMI is calculated differently for children and adolescents than it is for adults.