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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

It’s estimated more than one billion people in the world are living with obesity as defined by the current definition that ...