The Yale team defined BMI-defined obesity using well-established threshold set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatric ...

For years, body mass index (BMI) has been the standard tool for assessing obesity and cardiovascular risk. But new research ...

Monitoring your health begins with understanding your body composition, and one of the simplest ways to do that is by using a BMI calculator.

BMI is still commonly used to assess obesity even though research has shown it's not necessarily a reliable metric. A new study proposes doctors instead use technology that can measure body fat. Body ...

New study shows how hidden visceral and liver fat can clog arteries and raise heart disease risk even in people who appear ...

"Throw away that regular scale and focus instead on knowing what your fat mass is, what your lean muscle mass is, and what ...

In patients with renal cell carcinoma, greater abdominal adiposity and lower skeletal mass are associated with aggressive pathology.