It's the start of another year and the body mass index (BMI) is being criticized again. This time a Lancet-commissioned group ...

Body Mass Index, or BMI, has long been criticized as an unreliable method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts ...

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health ...

A new report says only using BMI to determine if a patient has obesity leads to under-diagnosing people who are ill and ...

More than 1 billion people worldwide live with obesity, and the condition is linked to about 5 million deaths every year from ...

New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular ...

Our reframing acknowledges the nuanced reality of obesity and allows for personalized care,” said Dr. Francesco Rubino of ...

Obesity, long determined by the flawed metric of BMI, should be diagnosed based on other measurements, experts argue.

In Tuesday's issue of The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, dozens of international medical experts and people with lived ...

An international committee of scientists has proposed changing the way obesity is defined and diagnosed. The proposal adds ...

Officers will now have to keep their BMI at 28 or less if they expect to climb the ranks. Read more at straitstimes.com.

“We recommend that BMI should be used only as a surrogate measure of health risk at a population level, for epidemiological ...