Instead of using the controversial body mass index, or BMI, to assess weight, an international group of scientists proposes ...

A global group of experts has suggested a new approach to diagnosing and treating obesity that does not rely solely on the ...

BMI falls short as a way to measure obesity. Doctors need to also determine whether body fat harms a person's health.

An international and widely supported group of experts is pushing doctors to avoid the exclusive use of BMI to decide whether ...

Body Mass Index, or BMI, has long been criticized as an unreliable method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts ...

BMI, a widely used measure, has long been criticized for being too simplistic. It calculates obesity based only on height and ...

In 1993, using data from white people in Great Britain, ages 16 to 64, the World Health Organization (WHO) designated BMI ...

Is obesity a disease or a risk factor for disease? In medical circles – and outside of them – the question is contentious, ...

Obesity is currently defined using a person's body mass index, or BMI. This is calculated as weight (in kilograms) divided by ...

Even if one accepts the current BMI categories at face value, the fact that someone who is fit and healthy — a sumo wrestler, for example — can have a high BMI while someone who is thin and ...

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

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