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The American Medical Association (AMA) is now discouraging the use of body mass index (BMI), calling it an "imperfect" and "problematic" means of assessing body fat and claiming it has been used for ...

New research points to a better way to measure obesity than body mass index. Body mass index was first developed in 1832 and has been the standard way to estimate a person’s body fat since the 1980s.

Body roundness index takes into account a person's hips and waist measurements. While body mass index (BMI) has long been a go-to measure of a person's health, used by doctors and health insurers ...

Share on Pinterest A recent study finds people with a high or low Body Roundness Index have an increased risk of death. Zing Images/Getty Images Body Roundness Index is a novel body composition ...

The American Medical Association, the largest council of doctors in the US, is ready to say goodbye to determining if someone is a healthy weight solely by the body mass index, owing to the ...

The body mass index, or BMI, is the formula that’s used most often to diagnose overweight and obesity. But unlike other common diagnoses, there is a certain stigma applied to people with a high body ...

Roughly 200 years ago, a Belgian mathematician and statistician named Adolphe Quetelet, seeking to characterize “normal man,” observed that adults’ body weight in kilograms is roughly proportional to ...

Body mass index has for decades been used as a shorthand for assessing body fat and weight-related health risks. But for about just as long, critics have noted the simple calculation is laden with ...

BMI has been integrated into the U.S. healthcare system for decades, but experts explain that the standard did not historically consider people of color The use of body mass index, or BMI, has been ...

Share on Pinterest Compared to BMI scores, body-fat percentages were a stronger predictor of the 15-year mortality risk of young adults, a new study found. Thana Prasongsin/Getty Images A new study ...

Charles Sturt University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. BMI is an internationally recognised screening method for sorting people into one of four weight categories: underweight ...