When a team of scientists led by a Washington State University researcher examined the way that more than 9,400 children grew ...

Body mass index (BMI) may not be the most accurate predictor of death risk. A new study from the University of Florida found ...

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

Discover how smoking during pregnancy may increase childhood obesity risk, according to new research from Washington State ...

The study found body mass index (BMI) patterns that could predict obesity, with findings published in Jama Network Open.

The higher a person’s body mass index (BMI), the higher their risk for complications after bariatric surgery, such as higher rates of emergency department visits and readmissions, according to a study ...

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

Menarche that begins “anytime between the age of 10 and 14 is considered normal,” Dr. Anne-Marie Amies Oelschlager, pediatric and adolescent gynecologist at the University of Washington School ...

It’s scary to think that we may have been using a surrogate — BMI — that may not have been all that accurate over the years," ...