Lower body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference and higher high-density lipoprotein are seen in the decade preceding ...

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health ...

Wen is an emergency physician and adjunct associate professor at George Washington University. She previously was Baltimore’s health commissioner. CNN: What is BMI? What are the advantages and ...

University of Utah Health; Emory University; University of Utah; Stony Brook University; Howard University; Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; and The George Washington University. Also, University of ...

a marker of health”, said Dr Adam Collins, an associate professor of nutrition at the University of Surrey who was not involved in the work. BMI is more useful on a population level rather ...

Under recommendations released Tuesday night, obesity would no longer be defined solely by BMI, a calculation of height ... a nutrition expert at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.

The use of weight-loss jabs may be associated with wider health benefits including ... The observational study, led by Washington University clinical epidemiologist Dr Ziyad Al-Aly, analysed ...

Meanwhile, BMI is calculated by using only two sets of data points: a patient’s height and weight, according to the National Institutes of Health. However, the new report notes that BMI can lead ...