Consulting a BMI index chart or using a BMI calculating tool can make this easier. The CDC offers a BMI calculator for people 20 years old and older and a BMI calculator for people age 2 through 19.

The study highlights BMI's role in mediating genetic risk for diseases, suggesting a complex relationship with conditions ...

Scientists at deCODE genetics have published a study in Nature Communications that sheds light on how body mass index (BMI) ...

New study from deCODE genetics/Amgen highlights the importance of BMI in pathogenesis of disease, suggesting that reducing ...

New body composition tests are replacing BMI as a more accurate way to assess health and fitness. Measuring muscle mass and ...

Unlike BMI, which merely considers weight and height, BRI digs deeper by looking at how fat is distributed across the body ...

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Dr. Paul Teirstein, at Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, California, in collaboration with Virginia-based Best Medical ...