An international panel of researchers say the measure is too simplistic and focuses too much on weight versus wellness.

A global group of experts has suggested a new approach to diagnosing and treating obesity that does not rely solely on the ...

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

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 ...

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

A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial ...

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

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

The Global Commission on Clinical Obesity has put forward 18 criteria for diagnosing clinical obesity, moving away from the ...