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

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

Obesity affects over 1 billion people globally, with 40 percent of U.S. adults classified as obese under the present ...

A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial ...

BMI has long been considered a flawed measure ... A spokesman for the health insurance trade group AHIP, formerly known as America’s Health Insurance Plans, said “it’s too early at this ...

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

She has had a few patients who had to meet a BMI cutoff for nonemergency hernia repair. Insurance remains an issue for the pricey medications. “Only about a third of patients are routinely ...

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Body mass index (BMI) is one of the most ubiquitous yet controversial ... aren’t available in every doctor’s office, and insurance policies often lag behind evolving medical practices.

“These findings suggest that BMI and obesity prevalence in the U.S. decreased in 2023 for the first time in more than a decade,” the authors write. “The most notable decrease was in the South, which ...