Instead of using the controversial body mass index, or BMI, to assess weight, an international group of scientists proposes ...
Body Mass Index (BMI) has limitations as it doesn't distinguish between muscle and fat, leading to misclassification of ...
BMI, a widely used measure, has long been criticized for being too simplistic. It calculates obesity based only on height and ...
Body Mass Index, or BMI, has long been criticized as an unreliable method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts ...
A global group of experts has suggested a new approach to diagnosing and treating obesity that does not rely solely on the ...
In 1993, using data from white people in Great Britain, ages 16 to 64, the World Health Organization (WHO) designated BMI ...
Obesity is currently defined using a person's body mass index, or BMI. This is calculated as weight (in kilograms) divided by ...
How we define obesity needs to become more nuanced, a report has argued, with BMI (body mass index) as a measure alone being ...
Obesity, long determined by the flawed metric of BMI, should be diagnosed based on other measurements, experts argue.
New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and take into account health ...
Experts suggest redefining obesity diagnosis with BMI, waist size, and health factors to improve treatment accuracy.