A recent study led by a team at the University of Oxford’s Department of Psychiatry has shown that an unhealthy childhood may impact the brain later in life. A child’s body mass index (BMI ...

And it's taught in medical school as a way of gauging a patient's general health. The problem is it's not accurate, the researchers said. BMI overestimates the number of people who are unhealthy.

But you can also have a healthy BMI and an unhealthy body fat percentage. A 2023 study on 3,001 participants found that almost 1,000 of them had healthy BMIs with body fat percentages ranging from ...

academics have said after a new study suggests that having an unhealthy childhood could affect the brain in later life. A child’s body mass index (BMI), blood pressure and physical activity ...

Figures such as BMI, blood pressure and activity levels may be linked to future dementia risk. Unhealthy childhoods may affect brain development by age 20, with BMI, blood pressure, and physical ...