A new report recommends doctors stop using Body Mass Index to diagnose obesity because it isn't nuanced enough. Doctors should consider a patient's overall health instead of their weight, it said. A ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — There are growing calls to eliminate the body mass index, more commonly known as BMI. It was created nearly 200 years ago and is still used as a metric for healthiness, but ...

We're often told that maintaining a healthy weight is key to a longer, healthier life. There is merit to this, of course, but ...

At your last physical, your doctor may have recorded your body mass index (BMI). That statistic has long been thought of as an indicator of how healthy someone is. While it's still helpful, the truth ...

Around 1 p.m., Gilbert police responded to the area of Val Vista Drive and Guadalupe Road for reports of a crash. When they arrived, they found a 13-year-old boy with serious injuries. Investigators ...

Body mass index (BMI) has long been a common tool for estimating a person’s relative weight status based on a simple height to weight ratio. It’s easy to calculate, widely accessible and often used to ...

Is BMI Accurate? What Is It and Is It Useful? When you go in for a wellness exam, oftentimes the first things the medical assistant does is take your height and weight. With this data, the computer ...

Is BMI Accurate? What Is It and Is It Useful? Body mass index (BMI) is a measure of your weight relative to your height. It’s meant to tell you if you have an elevated risk of disease and death based ...