A group of 58 researchers is calling for a new, better way to measure obesity and excess body fat that goes beyond BMI.

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

Weight-loss medicines such as Ozempic might raise a person’s likelihood of developing conditions including arthritis.

Novo Nordisk said on Friday a late-stage trial with a high-dose version of its weight loss drug semaglutide helped overweight ...

The focus on how BMI should be used may have overshadowed an equally, if not more important, matter proposed in a new report.

An international team of doctors proposed a new way to define obesity that's not based solely on BMI. Here's what they ...

An international commission made the case for focusing on body fat quantity and the illnesses people experience.

Obesity can put strain on the heart, resulting in an increased risk of conditions such as atrial fibrillation, or irregular ...

Waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio show stronger links to colorectal cancer (CRC) than body mass index (BMI), a new ...

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

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