BMI falls short as a way to measure obesity. Doctors need to also determine whether body fat harms a person's health.
Instead of using the controversial body mass index, or BMI, to assess weight, an international group of scientists proposes ...
An international and widely supported group of experts is pushing doctors to avoid the exclusive use of BMI to decide whether ...
New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and take into account health ...
Women with a waist size over 35 inches and men with a waist larger than 40 inches are at higher risk of developing metabolic diseases, she said. What if your doctor only looks at BMI? Some doctors ...
Obesity is currently defined using a person's body mass index, or BMI. This is calculated as weight (in kilograms) divided by ...
In 1993, using data from white people in Great Britain, ages 16 to 64, the World Health Organization (WHO) designated BMI ...
A new report published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology challenges the conventional reliance on Body Mass Index (BMI) ...
In Tuesday's issue of The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, dozens of international medical experts and people with lived ...
Currently, the BMI cutoff is 30 for the increasingly popular GLP-1 drugs. David J. Phillip/AP file Share Doctors should stop relying solely on a patient’s body mass index to diagnose obesity and ...