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

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

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

An international and widely supported group of experts is pushing doctors to avoid the exclusive use of BMI to decide whether ...

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

Obesity is currently defined using a person's body mass index, or BMI. This is calculated as weight (in kilograms) divided by ...

BMI falls short as a way to measure obesity. Doctors need to also determine whether body fat harms a person's health.

Relying solely on BMI to diagnose obesity may be outdated, say global experts. A new report calls for a more comprehensive ...

Academics said solely using body mass index (BMI) can lead to both overestimates and underestimates of the number of obese ...