A commission proposed a new definition of obesity focused on how excess fat affects the body, rather than assessing body mass ...

A global group of experts has suggested a new approach to diagnosing and treating obesity that does not rely solely on the much-contested body mass index (BMI).

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 ...

An international and widely supported group of experts is pushing doctors to avoid the exclusive use of BMI to decide whether someone has obesity, alongside other major changes.

These guidelines have been updated after 15 years, denouncing the standard BMI tool, which has been used for years to diagnose obesity. BMI or Body Mass Index is calculated as the ratio of weight ...

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

Researchers said using BMI alone as the sole arbiter of obesity ... be receiving obesity medications and what are the right criteria to identify patients who should be put at the front of the ...

Clinical guidelines published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission Tuesday conclude only using BMI to determine if a patient has obesity leads to under-diagnosing people who are ill ...

With a rumoured BMI of over 29, at the time ... plus evidence of health problems tied to extra pounds. Under the new criteria, about 20% of people who used to be classified as obese would no ...

And people with high muscle mass — football players or other athletes — may have a high BMI despite normal fat mass. Under the new criteria, about 20% of people who used to be classified as ...

may not get the optimal treatment due to BMI criteria alone. Adopting more clinically relevant criteria for the diagnosis and treatment of obesity will allow for treatment of a larger group of ...