New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health ...
BMI has long been falling out of favor. When the American Medical Association urged downgrading BMI in 2023, it blamed its ...
The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission, made up of more than 50 experts, has called for a ‘radical overhaul’ in how ...
Obesity, long determined by the flawed metric of BMI, should be diagnosed based on other measurements, experts argue.
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 ...
A new report says only using BMI to determine if a patient has obesity leads to under-diagnosing people who are ill and ...
Global experts advised in addition to BMI, measuring 'waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, or waist-to-height ratio' be ...
The way clinicians diagnose obesity is set to change with new guidelines acknowledging that not all obese have the same ...
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 Global Commission on Clinical Obesity has put forward 18 criteria for diagnosing clinical obesity, moving away from the ...