A young Gen Z woman has shared her shock on social media after she was told by her doctor that she is "overweight" despite ...

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 ...

Obesity is currently defined using a person's body mass index, or BMI. This is calculated as weight (in kilograms) divided by ...

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

In 1993, using data from white people in Great Britain, ages 16 to 64, the World Health Organization (WHO) designated BMI ...

A new study conducted in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, has found a link between the body mass index (BMI) in both men and women ...

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 ...

As of March 2020, nearly 42% of US adults had obesity, with the report estimating that more than a billion people are living ...