BMI falls short as a way to measure obesity. Doctors need to also determine whether body fat harms a person's health.
BMI has long been considered a flawed measure that can over-diagnose or underdiagnose obesity, which is currently defined as ...
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People with higher body mass indexes say they're relieved by experts' new guidance to downplay the use of BMI in diagnosing people with weight problems or obesity.
Instead of using the controversial body mass index, or BMI, to assess weight, an international group of scientists proposes ...
A group of 58 researchers is calling for a new, better way to measure obesity and excess body fat that goes beyond BMI.
Body Mass Index, or BMI, has long been criticized as an unreliable method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts ...