As BMI is increasingly recognized as an imperfect way to measure health, UVA researchers share other metrics they rely upon.

You’ve long heard doctors talk about BMI — or body mass index — and you may even know yours off the top of your head, especially if you were told your number was in the unhealthy range.

The body mass index (BMI), a weight-to-height ratio, has long been criticised as too simplistic, in part because it cannot distinguish between fat and muscle mass. Currently, anyone with a BMI of ...

heart diseases and other consequences of obesity even at lower BMI. This is because they typically have higher body fat percentages and central obesity as compared to Western counterparts,” Dr Anoop ...

A new report argues that body mass index or BMI is not the most accurate way to define obesity. BMI is only a measure of a person’s weight and height and does not account for muscle mass.

The health unit for the Oxford and Elgin counties region has issued an alert after a potential measles exposure at Ingersoll’s Alexandra Hospital. This potential exposure happened in the hospital’s ...

Body mass index (BMI) has been the international standard for measuring obesity since the 1980s, according to many sources, though some experts have questioned its validity. "Obesity is a complex ...

The Alexandra Club isn’t in the business of advertising its existence. Its all-female membership – made up of Melbourne’s wealthiest women – controls who can enter the doors to the five ...

The new hospital will replace the current Princess Alexandra Hospital, which opened in 1963 Work to build a new-look Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow will begin within the next 10 years ...

Work to build a new-look Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow will begin within the next 10 years, the government has confirmed. Construction of the Essex hospital will get under way between 2032 ...