According to doctors and dietitians, BRI may essentially be the same inaccurate measure in different clothing.

Body roundness index, or BRI, is gaining prominence as a way of predicting one's health risk by taking into account more than ...

Personal Perspective. As we shift away from the Body Mass Index measurement, the Body Roundness Index is supposed to offer an ...

Body roundness index, or BRI, is gaining prominence as a way of predicting one's health risk by taking into account more than just a person's height and weight, which are the sole factors used to ...

But BMI—a calculation based on height and weight—has been widely criticized as flawed and misleading, and some health ...

Nutritionist and dietitian Maya Feller helps break down a report from The Wall Street Journal about the metrics and accuracy ...

Enter a new metric called the body roundness index (BRI), originally proposed in the journal Obesity in 2013. While BMI ...

Dr. Wajahat Mehal, director of the Metabolic Health and Weight Loss Program at Yale University, on the outdated Body Mass Index used to gauge obesity.

Experts are turning to a new method of measuring a person’s health and risk of chronic disease, discarding the highly-criticised use of the Body Mass Index. Here’s what you need to know about the Body ...

The Body Mass Index (BMI) has been a standard tool for assessing health, but it faces criticism for not accurately reflecting ...

A recent article in the New York Times brought attention to a new health screening tool: the BRI, or the Body Roundness Index. Hurray! Let’s kick the dreaded and flawed Body Mass Index (BMI ...