Body mass index (BMI) may not be the most accurate predictor of death risk. A new study from the University of Florida found ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A new University of Florida Health study shows that body mass index, or BMI — commonly used to measure obesity and health risk — fails in predicting the risk of future death, ...

BMI, or body mass index, is an outdated measurement that fails to properly identify health risks, according to a new study.

Under recommendations released Tuesday night, obesity would no longer be defined solely by BMI, a calculation of height and weight, but combined with other measurements, such as waist ...

BMI is a person’s weight in kilograms divided by the square of their height in meters.. A BMI of 30 or higher is considered obese, while a BMI of 40 or above is considered severely obese. A ...

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Despite BMI’s ubiquity of use by health care professionals, it’s far from a perfect measure. To begin with, it measures total weight, rather than the weight attributed to fatty tissue.

A BMI of 30 or above generally classifies adults as having obesity, according to the WHO. (The recommended cutoff is 27.5 in Asians.) But the metric represents weight divided by height squared ...

The new definitions are likely to be confusing, said Kate Bauer, a nutrition expert at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. “The public likes and needs simple messages.

Body fat analysis is a better means of predicting a person’s health than body mass index Body fat and waist circumference both significantly predicted people’s 15-year risk of death BMI did ...