Trying to determine the impact your body shape and weight have on your health and well-being isn't an exact science. Healthcare providers often use a simple calculation called body mass index, or BMI, ...

When you go in for a wellness exam, oftentimes the first things the medical assistant does is take your height and weight. With this data, the computer spits out your body mass index (BMI) number.

What's your number -- under 25 or over 35? Body mass index (BMI) may not be a term that's on everyone's lips, but it's important for your health to understand what it is and to know your number.

Calculating your body mass index (BMI) involves using a simple formula with your weight (in pounds or kilograms) and height (in inches or meters). BMI is used to estimate your body fat and establish ...

High BMI and poor physical fitness during later adolescence increase the risk of both contracting and dying from sepsis and ...

Millions of Britons who have been told they are perfectly healthy could in fact be obese, scientists have revealed. Under the current rules, a body-mass-index (BMI) score of 18.5 to 25 is healthy, 25 ...

Men with a high body mass index (BMI) in their upper teens had an elevated risk of severe COVID-19, requiring hospitalization, later in life, a new study from Sweden finds. Men with a high body mass ...

Waist-to-hip ratio is a stronger predictor of early death than BMI and should be considered as a superior measure of healthy weight, new research being presented at the annual meeting of the European ...

A large proportion of the population has abdominal obesity despite a normal BMI, and these individuals are at increased cardiometabolic risk, two new studies found. “Individuals with normal BMI but ...