Insulin resistance markers and BMI were more effective in detecting steatotic liver disease among adolescents and young ...

Despite the limitations of body mass index (BMI), the measure effectively screened children and adolescents for elevated adiposity, both as expressed by fat mass index (FMI) and percentage of body fat ...

Screenings can actually cause more harm than good, activists say I remember opening the envelope holding my daughters’ report cards from their New York City elementary school a few years ago and ...

CHICAGO -- Clinicians have been urged to relay on BMI to determine whether or not a child is obese, but there may be as many drawbacks as benefits to this type of screening -- as even the "pro" ...

The beginning was in 2003. Laws requiring school systems to evaluate children using body-mass index (BMI) instruments—a common approach for grouping people based on height and weight—have passed 29 ...

Measuring the body mass index (BMI) of younger children may often fail to identify those with excess stomach fat, reports a new study. The findings of the study are published in the journal Pediatric ...

When assessing whether preschoolers are overweight, health professionals should use other measures such as waist-to-height ratio in addition to the Body Mass Index (BMI). A study published in the ...

A newly vetted set of BMI diagnosis thresholds can help clinicians catch diabetes earlier in higher-risk groups, investigators say. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force guidelines recommend ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Regardless of patient sex or BMI, initiating colorectal cancer screening with colonoscopy at age 45 years or ...

Obesity is commonly diagnosed using BMI, but this approach has several limitations. Researchers at Lund University and ...

New research presented at the European Congress on Obesity in Istanbul, Turkey (12–15 May) shows that higher body mass index ...

I remember opening the envelope holding my daughters’ report cards from their New York City elementary school a few years ago and stumbling upon a fitness report. The so-called “FITNESSGRAM” tallied ...