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

An international and widely supported group of experts is pushing doctors to avoid the exclusive use of BMI to decide whether ...

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

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 ...

Is obesity a disease or a risk factor for disease? In medical circles – and outside of them – the question is contentious, ...

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.

How we define obesity needs to become more nuanced, a report has argued, with BMI (body mass index) as a measure alone being too simplistic.