A new study reports that measurements that detect body fat are a more accurate predictor of mortality risk than body mass ...

Stanford says that whenever she assesses people in her clinic, she doesn’t talk to her patients about BMI or consider it when creating a health plan. “I want to get a health picture of who you ...

When it comes to measuring weight, BMI is the acronym everyone loves to hate, but authors of a new study say a different ...

Infection, delayed kidney function, kidney loss and death are all risks associated with kidney transplant surgery in obese ...

Body mass index, or BMI for short, is a measure of body weight based on your height. For decades, BMI has been a way to measure whether someone is at a healthy weight. In general, people are ...

WASHINGTON, DC – June 17, 2025 – The higher a person's body mass index (BMI), the higher their risk for complications after bariatric surgery, especially those with BMI of 50 or more, according to a ...

You might be offered the choice between an initial phone appointment and an in-person appointment. You may have to wait longer for an in-person appointment. You may have an appointment with one of ...

The Craniofacial Orthodontics Clinic is part of the world-renowned Broadbent Institute for Craniofacial Care & Research located within the School of Dental Medicine (Department of Orthodontics). It ...

The Way Forward While BMI might not disappear overnight, its dominance is undeniably fading. In its place, a new era of personalized, inclusive, and evidence-based health assessments is taking root.

HealthDay News — Children on the path to obesity can be detected as early as age 3.5 years, according to a study published online May 22 in JAMA Network Open. Chang Liu, Ph.D., from Washington State ...

Body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) have positive and negative associations with diabetic complications among people with type 2 diabetes (T2D), according to study results published in ...