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

Doctors worldwide should adopt a more comprehensive approach to diagnosing obesity, incorporating broader criteria and ...

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

BMI has long been falling out of favor. When the American Medical Association urged downgrading BMI in 2023, it blamed its ...

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

The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission, made up of more than 50 experts, has called for a ‘radical overhaul’ in how ...

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

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

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

Global experts advised in addition to BMI, measuring 'waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, or waist-to-height ratio' be ...

A group of experts says Body Mass Index, or BMI, used by doctors to measure obesity, is not a good method. CBS News medical ...

Using body-mass index to tell who is overweight or obese is not reliable and can result in misdiagnosis, the Commission on ...