BMI is clearly not an accurate indicator of health. Instead, it would be useful to access a direct measure of the percentage ...

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As obesity experts say more than 15 million Birtons are being wrongly labelled overweight and propose a radical overhaul of ...

A global commission of 56 medical experts is calling for redefining obesity, emphasizing more comprehensive methods than BMI, ...

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 ...

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New research exposes critical flaws in BMI measurements, as medical experts advocate for more accurate and inclusive methods ...

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

According to the current definition of "overweight" and "obesity," a ratio of height and weight, both men meet those standards. But this measure, called body mass index, or BMI, lacks nuance and ...

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

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

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 ...