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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

It's the start of another year and the body mass index (BMI) is being criticized again. This time a Lancet-commissioned group ...

How we define obesity needs to become more nuanced, a report has argued, with BMI (body mass index) as a measure alone being too simplistic.

Body mass index (BMI) is one of the most ubiquitous ... Machines that precisely measure body composition, for example, aren’t available in every doctor’s office, and insurance policies often ...