When it comes to measuring weight, BMI is the acronym everyone loves to hate, but authors of a new study say a different ...

A recent study conducted by the University of Florida suggests that Body Mass Index (BMI) may not be the most reliable ...

New body composition tests are replacing BMI as a more accurate way to assess health and fitness. Measuring muscle mass and ...

A new study published in the journal BMC Oral Health has uncovered a relationship between the diversity of bacteria in the ...

ABSTRACT. Objective To investigate the associations among visceral adiposity index (VAI), lipid accumulation product (LAP), body fat percentage (%), and android/gynoid ratio (A/G ratio) in women with ...

Navy research in the 1940s also developed the use of total body water measurement as a method to predict body composition (Pace and Rathbun, 1945). This became even more useful in body composition ...

3. Body impedance analysis (BIA) This method will provide detailed information on body composition and can also serve as a complementary measurement to BMI. BIA can also be interchangeable with ...

2.2 Procedures. The sample size was determined using a priori power analysis with G*Power 3.1 (University of Kiel, Germany). Based on an F-test for repeated measures (within-between interaction), with ...

Body mass index (BMI) is the standard measurement healthcare providers use to assess body composition and risk for certain diseases using a weight-to-height ratio. However, that doesn't mean it's the ...

Their predictive power rivals that of cognitive skills. Reliable measures of character have been developed. All measures of character and cognition are measures of performance on some task. In order ...