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

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

Researchers said using BMI alone as the sole arbiter of obesity ... The commission said 18 factors can support a diagnosis of obesity. Examples include breathlessness, high blood pressure, knee ...

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

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

It has been updated to reflect the findings of a new report. Chances are, a doctor has at one point measured your Body Mass Index to check if you are a healthy weight. But a new report suggests ...

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.

A new report noted that body mass index does not provide a nuanced enough assessment of health as it relates to weight Getty An international committee of scientists has proposed a new way to ...