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 obese ...

Is obesity a risk factor or a disease? This debate shapes treatments, policies, and eating disorder care. Explore its impact ...

A commission proposed a new definition of obesity focused on how excess fat affects the body, rather than assessing body mass index, that could change clinical care.

The health care community has redefined the requirements for clinical obesity, noting BMI shouldn’t be the sole barometer of ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...