Waist-to-height ratio should be used in conjunction with BMI to assess overweight and obesity in children and adolescents, a ...

Despite the success of drugs like Ozempic (semaglutide) in promoting both weight loss and longer life, doubt remains about the role of body mass index (BMI) at older ages. Many studies have shown that ...

And a study in JAMA Network Open shows it to be more accurate than Body Mass Index (BMI) for predicting health risk. BMI has ...

Body mass index (BMI) was almost three times more likely to classify children as overweight as a waist circumference-to-height ratio, according to a new study. Published in Obesity and ...