Body mass index is widely used to assess the human body’s obesity, health, fitness, eligibility as a surgical candidate or ...

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中老年人适度超重更长寿？ 前不久，“40岁后微胖才是长寿黄金体重”话题登上社交媒体热搜榜，引发广泛关注。不少网友在评论区现身说法——“我外婆105岁，胖乎乎的，就没瘦过”“我奶奶97岁，也是微胖”……当然，也有不少质疑声，诸如“我姥姥活到93岁，一辈子又瘦又小”之类。

共同通讯作者、哥德堡大学的Fredrik Bäckhed教授表示：“传统BMI指数往往会忽略那些体重正常但代谢风险高的人群。metBMI则能更准确地评估疾病风险，为个性化的预防和治疗铺平道路。” ...

Is BMI the best way to assess weight and health? (Photo illustration: Jack Forbes/Yahoo Life; photos: Getty Images) Body mass index (BMI) is a simple tool for assessing whether an individual falls ...

The body mass index has long been slammed as a blunt instrument for evaluating health, even more so with new obesity drugs changing the conversation about weight and well-being. Now a study reasserts ...

BMI has long been controversial among healthcare professionals—yet the obsession with how to calculate BMI persists. For these reasons as well as the influence of environmental, hormonal, and mental ...

Over the years, body mass index (BMI) has been both hailed and excoriated as a measure of health. Because research ties obesity to negative health outcomes, including heart disease and cancer, BMI has ...

This article was reviewed by Craig Primack, MD, FACP, FAAP, FOMA. When it comes to achieving a healthy body weight, some men ...

I am getting bent out of shape over surgeons telling patients they cannot get a knee replacement because they are above a certain BMI cutoff. Here’s a familiar scenario: A patient with a high body ...