A new report says only using BMI to determine if a patient has obesity leads to under-diagnosing people who are ill and ...

Leading health experts challenge traditional BMI measurements and introduce a comprehensive new approach to diagnosing obesity, potentially affecting millions.

The condition is better measured by looking at factors like inflammation, insulin resistance, and glucose tolerance, ...

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and take into account health ...

BMI can tell us about the health of populations ... an international group of experts including people with obesity, proposes two new categories of disease: preclinical and clinical obesity.

Our reframing acknowledges the nuanced reality of obesity and allows for personalized care,” said Dr. Francesco Rubino of ...

BMI has long been considered a flawed measure that can over-diagnose or underdiagnose obesity, which is currently defined as ...

A new Lancet Commission - made up of more than 50 experts from around the world - says a 'radical overhaul' is needed in how ...

A group of Australian and international experts are calling for a major overhaul of obesity diagnosis, saying current methods ...

An international committee of scientists has proposed changing the way obesity is defined and diagnosed. The proposal adds ...

Comment: The focus on how BMI should be used may have overshadowed an equally, if not more important, suggestion proposed in a new report The post BMI a distraction from real obesity issues appeared ...

The report introduces two new diagnostic categories: clinical obesity and pre-clinical obesity. People with clinical obesity meet BMI and other markers of obesity and have evidence of organ ...