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

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

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

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

People recovering from eating disorders say the focus on weight and BMI can be triggering and counterproductive.

People with pockets of fat hidden inside their muscles are at a higher risk of dying or being hospitalized from a heart attack or heart failure, regardless of their body mass index, according to ...

Viewing body-positive social media content, especially images, led to improved body image outcomes compared to fitspiration ...

A Lancet Global Commission report has recommended a new, nuanced approach that looks at measures of body fat such as waist ...

It’s estimated more than one billion people in the world are living with obesity as defined by the current definition that ...

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health problems from extra weight and other measurements.

Body weight was the primary outcome parameter for the systematic review with meta-analyses. This was determined in 29 of the ...

Biomea Fusion (BMEA) announced the company will become a diabetes and obesity medicines company. Based on the most recent clinical trial ...