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

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As BMI is increasingly recognized as an imperfect way to measure health, UVA researchers share other metrics they rely upon.

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A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial body mass index and hoping to better identify people who need treatment ...

According to BMI charts, a professional athlete with high muscle mass could be classified as overweight or even obese, despite having an extremely low body fat percentage. Similarly, someone with ...

Obesity Won't Be Solely Defined by BMI Under New Plan for Diagnosis by Global Experts A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the ...

But this measure, called body mass index, or BMI, lacks nuance and fails to tell whether a person is truly healthy, a global commission of medical experts said in a paper published Tuesday in The ...