A new report noted that body mass index does not provide a nuanced enough assessment of health as it relates to weight ...

BMI, a widely used measure, has long been criticized for being too simplistic. It calculates obesity based only on height and ...

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

Obesity affects over 1 billion people globally, with 40 percent of U.S. adults classified as obese under the present ...

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

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

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

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

Experts say clinical obesity is more than a high BMI and instead is a disease in which excess body fat harms tissues, organs or doing daily activities.

An international commission made the case for focusing on body fat quantity and the illnesses people experience.

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

While the authors of the study say BMI may not be a best ... a professor with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington said a coordinated effort by ...