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A new University of Florida Health study shows that body mass index, or BMI — commonly used to measure obesity and health ...

Fat tissue secretes hormones known as adipokines. Patients with obesity have a larger amount of leptin than a normal ...

A new study reports that measurements that detect body fat are a more accurate predictor of mortality risk than body mass ...

For young adults, body fat percentage is a better predictor of 15-year mortality risk than body mass index (BMI), according ...

Results show that body fat analysis did indeed predict people’s risk of death from any cause and, specifically, for heart ...

Body mass index, or BMI for short, is a measure of body weight based on your height. For decades, BMI has been a way to measure whether someone is at a healthy weight. In general, people are ...

Body mass index, or BMI, has been used by medical professionals since the 1990s to classify whether individuals are a healthy ...

Body mass index is defined as the individual's body weight divided by the square of his or her height. The formulae universally used in medicine produce a unit of measure of kg/m2.