More than 1 billion people worldwide live with obesity, and the condition is linked to about 5 million deaths every year from ...

The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission, made up of more than 50 experts, has called for a ‘radical overhaul’ in how ...

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

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

A new report says only using BMI to determine if a patient has obesity leads to under-diagnosing people who are ill and ...

Our reframing acknowledges the nuanced reality of obesity and allows for personalized care,” said Dr. Francesco Rubino of ...

How we define obesity needs to become more nuanced, a report has argued, with BMI (body mass index) as a measure alone being ...

BMI has long been falling out of favor. When the American Medical Association urged downgrading BMI in 2023, it blamed its ...

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also 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 ...

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

“We recommend that BMI should be used only as a surrogate measure of health risk at a population level, for epidemiological ...