New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular ...

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

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

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

A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial ...

An international commission made the case for focusing on body fat quantity and the illnesses people experience.

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

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

Obesity, long determined by the flawed metric of BMI, should be diagnosed based on other measurements, experts argue.

Global experts advised in addition to BMI, measuring 'waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, or waist-to-height ratio' be ...

A group of experts says Body Mass Index, or BMI, used by doctors to measure obesity, is not a good method. CBS News medical ...

The new definition proposed by the Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission, a group of 58 leading experts from various ...