Body Mass Index can help clinicians diagnose obesity and signs of health conditions ranging from anorexia to diabetes to coronavirus. However, the body metric needs details about your age, height, ...

Body Mass Index (BMI) is a widely used tool to assess an individual's body weight in relation to their height, providing a numerical value that categorizes individuals into different weight status ...

Weight is a heavy topic (see what I did there?). It should go without saying that this point that you're so much more than a number on a scale, and that many factors affect your overall health, ...

Your BMI at this age is likely linked to diabetes and heart disease - ...

U.S. health officials have revised a tool to track the rising cases of severe obesity among children who were previously off the charts. Updated growth charts released Thursday by the Centers for ...

Must and Anderson, 1 in this issue of the journal, have described the basis of body mass index (BMI) for age for the assessment of weight status in children and adolescents. The aims of this short ...

PHILADELPHIA, April 22 (UPI) --A high body mass index, or BMI, at two months old puts infants at increased risk for obesity by age 2, according to a recent study. Researchers at the Children's ...