It's calculated by dividing your weight in kg by square of your height in metres. So a person who's 176 cm and weighs 85 kg will have a BMI of 27 roughly which is considered overweight by WHO ...

For nearly a generation, weight-to-height ratio charts and BMI for age and sex have been used to diagnose children with obesity, but these surrogate assessment tools are inaccurate in childhood ...

Excess fat mass estimated by waist-circumference-to-height ratio predicts the risk of liver damage better than body mass index (BMI) estimated obesity, a new study shows. Waist-to-height ratio is ...

For nearly a generation, weight-to-height ratio charts and BMI for age and sex have been used to diagnose children with obesity. However, these assessment tools are inaccurate in childhood and ...

Alternative anthropometrics, such as waist-to-height ratio, may better predict HF hospitalization and CV death in patients with HF with reduced ejection fraction and overweight compared with BMI ...

For nearly a generation, weight-to-height ratio charts and BMI for age and sex have been used to diagnose children with obesity. However, these assessment tools are inaccurate in childhood and ...

Waist circumference-to-height ratio may be universally adopted, ... For nearly a generation, weight-to-height ratio charts and BMI for age and sex have been used to diagnose children with obesity.