With a sleek profile — it's almost as thin as most laptops — the Renpho Smart Digital Bathroom Scale has a backlit screen that's handy for those late-night or early-morning weigh-ins. No need to tap ...

A document endorsed by more than 56 experts worldwide, published in 'The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology', proposes a change ...

A new report suggests that a diagnosis of obesity should depend on patients' individual health — not their Body Mass Index.

Amid renewed criticism of the body mass index (BMI) as a diagnostic criterion for obesity, a 2,000-year-old technique used by ...

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

People with higher body mass indexes say they're relieved by experts' new guidance to downplay the use of BMI in diagnosing people with weight problems or obesity.

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

Skeletal muscle fat infiltration (IMAT) is linked to coronary microvascular dysfunction and increased cardiovascular risk, ...

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

But, while generally useful, BMI can fail to identify some people who are unhealthy due to their excess weight, and ...

Lose weight. But the report, published in the journal The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology on Tuesday, suggested that having obesity according to the BMI scale doesn't mean a person is unhealthy.