That is why a doctor or another healthcare professional will often chart your body mass index, or BMI, during routine physicals. While BMI and other measurements such as body fat percentage do ...

Is your BMI or body fat percentage a better measure of health? Depends who you ask. The NHS uses BMI (body mass index), which ...

A woman diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer has told the BBC the NHS said her Body Mass Index (BMI ... but said she was "essentially... too fat for them even to speak to me".

FAT patients should be weighed every year so doctors can keep an eye on them, the NHS watchdog says ... those with long-term illnesses have their body mass index updated on their medical records ...