The condition is better measured by looking at factors like inflammation, insulin resistance, and glucose tolerance, according to the doctor. In some cases, using BMI can result in “muscular athletes” ...

As BMI is increasingly recognized as an imperfect way to measure health, UVA researchers share other metrics they rely upon.

However, this classification system assumes that weight alone is a reliable indicator of health, disregarding important ...

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health problems from extra weight and other measurements ...

Body mass index became the standard in medicine in the 1970s for assessing whether a human being is overweight. The problem is that the testing that created the modern-day standard used worldwide ...

BMI has long been considered a flawed measure ... many doctors aren't trained accurately and standard medical tape measures aren't big enough for many people with obesity. In addition, determining ...

Body mass index (BMI) has been the international standard for measuring obesity since the 1980s, according to many sources, though some experts have questioned its validity. "Obesity is a complex ...

BMI has long been considered a flawed measure ... many doctors aren’t trained accurately and standard medical tape measures aren’t big enough for many people with obesity.