We break down the history behind BMI and how body fat percentage relates to your health. Read more to get a better ...

Lower body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference and higher high-density lipoprotein are seen in the decade preceding diagnosis of dementia.

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

BMI also doesn’t account for certain biological differences between men and women. It isn’t always helpful for diagnosing abdominal obesity, or obesity around the center of the body ...

Seventy percent of the people studied were female, there was a roughly even ... measured in terms of their body mass index, or BMI. “Compared to subcutaneous fat, fat stored in muscles may ...

Humans with relatively more fat hidden in and around their muscles face a higher risk of death or hospitalization from heart ...

New research published in the European Heart Journal reveals that 'muscle fat' around muscles can increase the risk of death ...

Body Mass Index cannot differentiate between muscle mass, fat and bone density. Doctors suggest other markers and scans to ...

William N. Doyle Jr., from the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine in Tampa, and colleagues examined ...

The number does not capture a person's muscle mass; where on their body fat is stored; or how their race, ethnicity and gender affect health risks.

And thus, body mass index was born (though it wasn't called ... In one study with thousands of participants, African American women with the same BMIs as white women were found to have better ...