New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular ...
Global experts advised in addition to BMI, measuring 'waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, or waist-to-height ratio' be ...
A new report says only using BMI to determine if a patient has obesity leads to under-diagnosing people who are ill and ...
An international commission made the case for focusing on body fat quantity and the illnesses people experience.
BMI has long been falling out of favor. When the American Medical Association urged downgrading BMI in 2023, it blamed its ...
Using body-mass index to tell who is overweight or obese is not reliable and can result in misdiagnosis, the Commission on ...
In a study of more than 5,000 mothers and their children, exposure to air pollution during the three months before pregnancy predicted higher child body mass index (BMI) and related obesity risk ...
It's the start of another year and the body mass index (BMI) is being criticized again. This time a Lancet-commissioned group ...