In 2023, the American Medical Association acknowledged that BMI is an “imperfect way to measure body fat.” And an English study from 2021, with a more diverse data set, found that current BMI ...

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As global populations age and the prevalence of obesity and metabolic disorders rises, understanding the complex ...

Question: I read that physicians were moving away from the body mass index. But at my last physical, my BMI was used. Is my ...

ICYMI, determining someone’s health by checking their body mass index is … well, not it. For decades, BMI was used as a major indicator of one’s health. But recently, the American Medical ...

The results showed 87 patients were included, with a mean age of 46.8 years, 70.1% male, and a mean body mass index of 28.9 ...

Discover the potential of semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy, for reducing body weight and knee osteoarthritis-related pain.

However, all the three men have a body mass index (BMI) of 27 which on paper gives no idea of the difference in their physique. In 2013, mathematician Dr Diana Thomas gave precisely this example ...

The study reveals a dose-response relationship between BMI and PASC risk in children, highlighting obesity as a key factor in post-COVID health challenges.

The current analysis included 2612 patients (mean age, 57.5 years ... showed that there was a statistically significant association between baseline body weight, body mass index and the response to SC ...

A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that once-weekly injectable semaglutide led to ...