A new report notes that the amount of belly fat a patient has is a more useful metric for determining obesity than ...

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

Body Mass Index (BMI) has limitations as it doesn't distinguish between muscle and fat, leading to misclassification of ...

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Researchers highlight that having a normal BMI does not always indicate good health, as high body fat can increase the risk ...

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Obesity affects over 1 billion people globally, with 40 percent of U.S. adults classified as obese under the present ...

It's the start of another year and the body mass index (BMI) is being criticised again . This time a Lancet-commissioned group of experts is ...

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

Relying solely on BMI to diagnose obesity may be outdated, say global experts. A new report calls for a more comprehensive ...

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

A team of Indian doctors, including from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, has in a new study publishe ...