Body Mass Index (BMI) is a commonly used index of relative weight. BMI is calculated as weight (kilograms) divided by height (meters) squared. The index is often used to assess obesity in individuals.

At 5'10" and 200 pounds, Maher says she has an estimated 170 pounds of lean muscle mass on her body. "That BMI doesn't really tell you what I can do," she says. "It doesn't tell you what I do on ...

A new study suggests that the DNA some modern Japanese people have inherited from ancient hunter-gatherers may increase BMI.

BMI and depressed mood explained small parts (3.0% and 2.3%, respectively) of variance in knee pain. BMI explained a substantial part of variance in both self-reported (9.8%) and performance-based ...

The study, which used genetic data from Iceland and the UK Biobank, looked at whether disease risk associated with BMI-related sequence variants are explained completely or partially by their ...

Recently, researchers set out to explore whether your body weight or your fitness level is a better predictor of your heart ...

BMI and depressed mood explained small parts of variance in knee pain. BMI explained a substantial part of variance in activity limitations, while depressed mood made a small contribution.

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High BMI in pregnancy approximately doubled the risk for insomnia among offspring and was not fully explained by familial factors.