The deadliest disease in the U.S. is one of the most preventable.

Dr. David Geier joined Good morning Charleston Wednesday to break down a new study and talk about some of the myths surrounding a persons BMI and what measureme ...

About 1 in 5 classified as overweight based on BMI alone considered to have obesity according to European society definition.

A cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis examined the distribution of people by obesity level using the European ...

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

A new study compares body mass index (BMI) with body fat percentage and finds the latter is far more reliable in predicting ...

What Is BMI or body mass index and how to calculate it? Read this article what your BMI indicates and affects your health.

When it comes to measuring weight, BMI is the acronym everyone loves to hate, but authors of a new study say a different ...

Study shows people with high body fat are 78% more likely to die and three times more likely to die from heart disease, ...

That was the year I entered junior high—the same year Texas Instruments introduced its TI-30 scientific calculator.

Results show that body fat analysis did indeed predict people’s risk of death from any cause and, specifically, for heart disease, while BMI did not. Men with 27% or more body fat and women with 44% ...

There's good news tonight in San Diego, where months long hospital stays helped three men bond while waiting for heart transplants. NBC News' Priscilla Thompson reports on the happy moments when ...