The term BMI was first used in the mid-19th century, although the acronym wasn't officially coined until 1972 when Physiologist Ancel Keys gave it a modern name. An acronym for body mass index, it has ...
Body mass index (BMI) is an estimate of body fat. It’s calculated using a statistical ratio of weight to height and applied based on your sex assigned at birth (1, 2). Developed over a century ago by ...
Body mass index (BMI) alone may not be enough to measure someone's risk of cardiometabolic disease, according to researchers ...
Premenopausal women have a larger increase in mean BMI with increasing age than postmenopausal women, with BMI peaking at ...
A study of more than 173,000 women in Denmark, presented at the European Congress on Obesity (ECO) held online this year, suggests that girls with a higher body mass index (BMI) during childhood are ...
A multinational team of researchers has discovered that over 20% of adults with a normal BMI range experience levels of abdominal obesity that puts them at higher risk of hypertension, diabetes, high ...
Among adults with type 2 diabetes (T2D) older than 65 years, a body mass index (BMI) in the moderate overweight category (26-28) appears to offer better protection from cardiovascular death than does ...