CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Last fall, the Cleveland Clinic named "bariatric surgery for diabetes" its top medical innovation of 2013. The Clinic used to pay for the surgery for employees who had uncontrolled ...

The policy that the American Medical Association adopted this week to de-emphasize the use of BMI is part of a growing movement away from the single, weight-based metric and toward a broader way of ...

BMI is an estimate of body composition based on weight and height. For people of any sex, a moderate BMI is usually 18.5 to 24.9. For people assigned female at birth, BMI does have some limitations.

Waist-to-hip ratio is another belly fat measure, which may predict heart attack risk better than BMI, especially in women, ...

It's time to take out the measuring tape. A new study is adding to the growing evidence that waist circumference – not just body mass index (BMI) – is a key predictor for heart disease, cancer, ...

Central obesity in normal-weight people places them at greater risk of death than does overall overweight or obesity in people without the excess abdominal fat, a new study suggests. The startling ...

You've probably heard the term BMI (body mass index). It's based on height and weight, and it's been widely used to determine who’s underweight, normal weight, overweight, or has obesity. But BMI has ...