The Pros & Cons of BMI (& 8 Other Measurements That May Be More Useful for Weight Loss) When you go in for a wellness exam, oftentimes the first things the medical assistant does is take your ...

Rhythm's bivamelagon cut BMI and hunger scores in Phase 2 trial for hypothalamic obesity, prompting plans to discuss Phase 3 ...

8. For the very obese — with a BMI over 40, or a BMI over 35 with significant adverse health conditions — obesity surgery may be an appropriate option. Note: Highly muscular people, ...

TMI misclassified obesity only 8% of the time (versus more than 19% with BMI). For adults, Laursen suggests getting out a tape measure. Measure your circumference at your belly button.

Stratifying body mass index (BMI) categories by waist circumference (WC) thresholds improves mortality risk prediction in ...

BMI is B-A-D, a new study suggests. There's a better way to measure weight “It’s scary to think that we may have been using a surrogate — BMI — that may not have been all that accurate ...

The risk was elevated among persons with BMI levels either higher or lower than that range — by a factor of up to 1.5 among those with a BMI of more than 35.0 and by a factor of 2.8 among those ...

We’re digging into the pros and cons of BMI, including alternative measurements that might provide a better picture of health.