Leading health experts challenge traditional BMI measurements and introduce a comprehensive new approach to diagnosing obesity, potentially affecting millions.

The team categorized pediatric obesity treatment response, based on changes in body mass index standard deviation score, as ...

An international team of doctors proposed a new way to define obesity that's not based solely on BMI. Here's what they ...

Traditionally BMI was used to define obesity, but a team of doctors redefined obesity based on the Indian population.

Obesity is now understood as a condition that affects the functions of organs and tissues, leading to complications such as ...

Instead of using the controversial body mass index, or BMI, to assess weight, an international group of scientists proposes ...

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

It’s one thing for the scientific community to propose a fundamental change to the way obesity is defined and diagnosed. But ...

As of March 2020, nearly 42% of US adults had obesity, with the report estimating that more than a billion people are living ...

The term overweight is no more a part of the India-specific obesity guidelines that were revised after nearly 15 years and ...

BMI has long been considered a flawed measure that can over-diagnose or underdiagnose obesity, which is currently defined as ...

management and treatment with more appropriate and cost-effective allocation of resources. These new criteria for the ...