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

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 ...

A large study published in The Lancet Regional Health – Americas shows that waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) is a stronger and ...

Lead author Dr. Thiago Bosco Mendes from the University of Pittsburgh explained, “When we considered traditional risk factors, only waist-to-height ratio continued to predict future heart disease.” ...

Higher body mass index (BMI) after diagnosis is linked to better survival outcomes in patients with localized renal cell ...

People aged 50 and over can help prevent heart disease and gain years of life by having key health values checked regularly, health experts say.A cardiovascular health check should become a regular ...

In the past, studies suggested that eating more potatoes could increase blood pressure and body weight. However, many of ...

Using waist-to-height ratio is more effective at predicting an individual’s heart disease risk than body mass index (BMI), ...

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Using full genome sequencing data from more than 347,000 individuals, researchers quantified how much genetic differences explain human traits such as height, body mass index, fertility, and disease ...