Race-sensitive cutoffs can address BMI’s shortcomings, but not entirely.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For these reasons as well as the influence of environmental, hormonal, and mental factors, “your body size is not a very good ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BMI, one of the most popular ways of telling if you're a healthy weight, is bogus. Here's what to use instead. A new report ...

Nearly 3 out of 4 Americans are overweight (32%) or have obesity (40%). For years, both have been diagnosed using body mass ...

Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. You can reach Liz on Signal at LizC.22. The body mass index is not going away, a new ...

Why BMI falls short: It’s a simple height-to-weight calculation, but it ignores muscle mass, fat distribution, age, sex, and ethnicity—leading to misleading health assessments. Better health measures: ...

Is BMI Accurate? What Is It and Is It Useful? When you go in for a wellness exam, oftentimes the first things the medical assistant does is take your height and weight. With this data, the computer ...

People who seek medical treatment for obesity or an eating disorder do so with the hope their health plan will pay for part of it. But whether it’s covered often comes down to a measure invented ...

New research presented at the European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2026, Istanbul, Turkey, 12–15 May) shows that, following ...

A new tool, OBSCORE, is meant to better define who's at risk for obesity complications, going beyond BMI to include family ...