The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission, made up of more than 50 experts, has called for a ‘radical overhaul’ in how ...
New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular ...
BMI has long been falling out of favor. When the American Medical Association urged downgrading BMI in 2023, it blamed its ...
Obesity, long determined by the flawed metric of BMI, should be diagnosed based on other measurements, experts argue.
It's the start of another year and the body mass index (BMI) is being criticized again. This time a Lancet-commissioned group ...
The revised criteria proposed by a nationwide panel of doctors define values of BMI greater than 23 without any effects on ...