Is BMI misleading? What this common health measure misses
In clinics and charts around the world, a simple height-and-weight formula continues to guide decisions about health, often without telling the whole story. Body Mass Index, or BMI...
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In clinics and charts around the world, a simple height-and-weight formula continues to guide decisions about health, often without telling the whole story. Body Mass Index, or BMI...
You know the drill at your annual physical. One of the first things you do once you’ve made it into the exam room is step on the scale. And if your doctor doesn’t share your body m...
A simple waist measurement may be nearly as effective as more complicated methods for detecting unhealthy levels of body fat. Researchers also found that BMI alone missed many peop...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Body roundness index may improve mortality risk stratification in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, identifying high-risk lean and nonobe...
If you’re over 65, the number you’ve spent decades worrying about on the bathroom scale may not be the number that matters most. New research involving nearly 7,000 older Americans...
Using DXA data from nearly 29,000 Canadian adults, researchers have built the first age- and sex-specific percentile charts for the fat mass to fat-free mass ratio, a single metric...
If any study could make BMI irrelevant for spine surgeons, this one could do it.
A retrospective analysis of 100 PTCD procedures identifies patient BMI, obstruction location, access route, ductal dilatation, age, and sex as significant predictors of fluoroscopy...
Children who follow higher trajectories of body mass index (BMI) and fat mass index across childhood report greater body dissatisfaction at age 14, in both boys and girls, accordin...
A new global definition of clinical obesity classifies far fewer children as obese than widely used body mass index (BMI) thresholds, according to a large international study. The...
By Faye Chiu, CNN (CNN) — Among adults 65 and older, having a larger waist circumference was linked to a higher risk of early death, according to a new study. But being classified...
Obesity has become one of the most consequential public health challenges of the modern era, driving elevated risks of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and a constellation...
A study by the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, found that a high adolescent body mass index (BMI) may be linked to accelerated biologi...
Obesity is a public health crisis, with excess fat linked with a wide variety of chronic conditions. Yet our tendency to use body mass as a convenient proxy for unhealthy weight ga...
Among children and adolescents, a higher body roundness index (BRI) is associated with increased odds of current asthma, according to a study published online Aug. 6 in the Annals...
While the adult obesity rate appears to be slowing in the United States, childhood obesity remains historically high, affecting nearly 1 in 5 school-age children. Many efforts to a...
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A large Turkish cross-sectional study finds that the uric acid-to-HDL cholesterol ratio is associated with a dysmetabolic phenotype in adults with obesity, but adds little diagnost...
By Dr. Liji Thomas, MD From: news-medical.net Background Mammographic density (MD) reflects the proportion or amount of fibroglandular tissue in the breast, depending on the measur...
New Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology Commission criteria, which distinguish clinical obesity from preclinical obesity, may better inform patient selection and risk assessment for...
Researchers also developed a clinical obesity polygenic score that combined information from numerous genetic variants, a score that was shown to be significantly associated with B...
The study found that a larger waist circumference correlates with a higher risk of an early death, but those being overweight based on BMI have a lower risk.
The tape measure is the cheapest piece of diagnostic equipment in most Indian homes, and it spends almost all of its life in a drawer. The weighing scale gets the attention instead...
A study found that the measurement performed nearly as well as an obesity definition based on multiple body measurements. A tape measure around the waist may provide surprisingly u...
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