BRI compares your waistline to your height, giving a score somewhere between one and 20 For years, we’ve been told that BMI is the final word on whether or not someone can be deemed a healthy weight ...

Imagine trying to work out if you are dangerously overweight without once hopping on to the bathroom scales. That's what a new method for determining body size aims to do. Imagine trying to work out ...

Could a new health metric better measure body fat and diagnose obesity in adults? For decades, the body mass index, or BMI, has been a widely used medical screening tool to measure a patient’s overall ...

Body roundness index (BRI), may be a better predictor of disease than body mass index (BMI), new research shows. Researchers determined that higher BRI trajectories were significantly associated with ...

Abdominal body fat could hint at cardiovascular disease risk even when other health factors are not considered, a new study finds. Having a high body roundness index (BRI) over a 6-year period was ...

THURSDAY, Sept. 26, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- “Body roundness” could be a better measure than BMI at predicting how excess weight might affect a person’s heart health, a new study finds. People who ...

"Body roundness" could be a better measure than BMI at predicting how excess weight might affect a person's heart health, a new study finds. People who developed a high Body Roundness Index during a ...