Imagine trying to work out if you are dangerously overweight without once hopping on to the bathroom scales. That's what a new method for determining body size aims to do.

However, more recent research has revealed BMI to not only be an insufficient measure of health, but also highly problematic, with initial studies almost exclusively made up of Caucasian men.

Study conducted by NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) and WHO. Findings part of first global analysis of trends in both ...

Experts have started thinking more broadly about what puts a person at risk for heart disease, still the leading killer in the U.S.

Unplanned pregnancies are still being reported among people using GLP-1 drugs, but now fertility specialists are ...

The overall average body fat percentage in the United States is about 39.9% for women and 28.1% for men, so below these amounts would technically be “below average.” However, most people in the United ...

For other conditions, like type 2 diabetes, heart failure, and stroke, the effects were largely reduced but not entirely ...

The study highlights BMI's role in mediating genetic risk for diseases, suggesting a complex relationship with conditions ...

New study from deCODE genetics/Amgen highlights the importance of BMI in pathogenesis of disease, suggesting that reducing ...