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

Obesity, a new report recommends, should be diagnosed by an individual’s body fat percentage, not weight, which was the norm ...

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

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

Obesity has been an ongoing struggle for many consumers, and for years, body mass index (BMI) has been the key metric health ...

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).

Within western populations, there were individuals who met the BMI criteria for obesity but did not either manifest the disease or have the metabolic abnormalities associated with excess body fat.

Who is eligible for weight-loss jabs? UK pharmacies tighten rules amid misuse concerns - The clampdown comes after several ...

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 ...

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 ...

Doctors have proposed new diagnostic criteria for assessing obesity in Indians, taking into account body size, body fat and possible organ dysfunction, asserting that the body mass index (BMI) alone ...