A WHO-backed study reveals that overweight postmenopausal women with heart disease face a 31 per cent higher breast cancer ...

About 1 in 5 classified as overweight based on BMI alone considered to have obesity according to European society definition.

Globally, obesity is a growing public health crisis, affecting millions and leading to premature deaths. India faces a ...

A new British Nutrition Foundation review finds that most UK women of reproductive age fall short of key nutrients before and ...

As obesity management draws awareness and weight-loss injections are launched in India, hospitals are offering customised ...

Body mass index (BMI) may not be the most accurate predictor of death risk.

Study shows people with high body fat are 78% more likely to die and three times more likely to die from heart disease, calling into question BMI's reliability as a health measure.

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

On the other hand, BMI — an estimate of body fat based on height and weight — was not associated with a statistically significant higher risk of death from any cause, researchers found.

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, suggesting the ...

(CNN) — When it comes to measuring weight, BMI is the acronym everyone loves to hate. Health professionals have long used body mass index as a quick screening tool to ...

BMI, or body mass index, is an outdated measurement that fails to properly identify health risks, according to a new study. Measuring body fat may be just as easy.