Body mass index (BMI) has long been a common tool for estimating a person’s relative weight status based on a simple height to weight ratio. It’s easy to calculate, widely accessible and often used to ...

Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. You can reach Liz on Signal at LizC.22. The body mass index is not going away, a new ...

The body mass index has long been slammed as a blunt instrument for evaluating health, even more so with new obesity drugs changing the conversation about weight and well-being. Now a study reasserts ...

Our Real Talk with a Doc columnist explains how to push back if your doctor's obsessed with weight loss. And what other health metrics matter more instead.

Body mass index (BMI) is the standard measurement healthcare providers use to assess body composition and risk for certain diseases using a weight-to-height ratio. However, that doesn't mean it's the ...

“It’s scary to think that we may have been using a surrogate — BMI — that may not have been all that accurate over the years," one doctor says. “It’s scary to think that we may have been using a ...

Obesity, long determined by the flawed metric of BMI, should be diagnosed based on other measurements, experts argue.

Clinicians now see a new trend where people with normal body weight develop metabolic diseases through their hidden visceral fat accumulation.

So the, the question we're investigating in this study is whether the use of GLP-1 receptor agonists, which is *** medication for weight loss and diabetes, um, is associated with *** lower risk of ...