That compares with a healthy BMI for younger adults over age 20, which is between 18.5 and 24.9, with a BMI of 25 to 29.9 considered as having overweight.

U-Shaped Relationship Found Between Age, BMI, and Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Risk The data come from the UK Biobank, a population-based prospective cohort study of adults in the United Kingdom ...

HealthDay News — The optimal body mass index (BMI) cutoff point appears to be 27kg/m 2 for detecting obesity in middle-aged and older adults, according to a study presented at the annual meeting ...