Body Mass Index, or BMI, is a person’s weight in kilograms divided by the square of his/her height in meters. The National Institute of Health (NIH) has now defined BMI to be the deciding ...

Experts say that BRI could be a more accurate predictor of health risk than BMI, which has been criticized as flawed and ...

Māori and Pacific women are particularly disadvantaged by the BMI limit on access to public fertility treatment. Research ...

You've probably heard the term BMI (body mass index). It's based on height and weight, and it's been widely used to determine who’s underweight, normal weight, overweight, or has obesity.

If you had a health check-up recently, you might have been told that you're underweight, overweight or obese based on your body mass index or BMI. But the BMI was never intended as a diagnostic tool.

The argument against BMI is it measures weight, not fat, which makes it inaccurate, misleading, and it contributes to body shaming. To counter, it can also be a valuable component for health as a ...

Practically everyone who has gone to a doctor for a check-up has had their BMI or Body Mass Index measured. BMI calculators abound online and it has become a modern go-to quick check for one’s ...

Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images The body mass index (BMI) considers the height-weight relationship as a health indicator, while the body roundness index (BRI) measures abdominal body fat and ...

Researchers found that, from the age of 40, people at the higher end of the healthy Body Mass Index (BMI) range had the lowest risk of dying from disease. But people at the top and bottom ends of ...

The study suggests that body mass index (BMI), which doesn’t factor in abdominal fat, is an outmoded way of assessing obesity. Middle-aged and older adults who carry excess fat around their ...

KUALA LUMPUR: BMI Country Risk & Industry Research (BMI), a unit of Fitch Solutions, has revised its end-2024 forecast for the ringgit to RM4.00 per US dollar (USD) from RM4.55 previously ...