Body mass index (BMI) has been the international standard for measuring obesity since the 1980s, according to many sources, though some experts have questioned its validity. A person’s BMI is ...

Now, a global commission of 56 medical experts is proposing a major overhaul of how obesity is defined and diagnosed, which means the days of relying solely on body mass index to reveal if you ...

New research points to a better way to measure obesity than body mass index. Body mass index was first developed in 1832 and ...

Body mass index, or BMI, has long been criticized as a flawed method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts is sharing new recommendations. BMI is a formula that uses a person's ...

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 ...

BMI, one of the most popular ways of telling if you're a healthy weight, is bogus. Here's what to use instead.

Their aim is to move beyond the long-criticized Body Mass Index (BMI) in favor of combining other useful metrics. Findings detailed in a report published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology ...

58 (95% CI 1.12–2.23) in the lowest height category (≤150 cm) to 2.85 (95% CI 2.37–3.42) in the highest height category (>180 ...

An international committee of scientists has proposed a change to the way obesity is defined and diagnosed. The goal is to offer a more nuanced and objective way to assess body composition, by ...