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.
A group of 58 researchers is calling for a new, better way to measure obesity and excess body fat that goes beyond BMI.
A new report notes that the amount of belly fat a patient has is a more useful metric for determining obesity than ...
New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and take into account health ...
A new report says only using BMI to determine if a patient has obesity leads to under-diagnosing people who are ill and ...
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An international group of experts proposes two new categories of disease: preclinical and clinical obesity and the FDA ...
New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular body mass index (BMI) measure.
Using body-mass index to tell who is overweight or obese is not reliable and can result in misdiagnosis, the Commission on ...
A new Lancet Commission - made up of more than 50 experts from around the world - said that a 'radical overhaul' is needed in ...
Experts say clinical obesity is more than a high BMI and instead is a disease in which excess body fat harms tissues, organs or doing daily activities.
BMI falls short as a way to measure obesity. Doctors need to also determine whether body fat harms a person's health.