BMI, obesity

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health ...
An international group of experts proposes two new categories of disease: preclinical and clinical obesity and the FDA ...
New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular ...
Doctors worldwide should diagnose obesity differently, relying on broader criteria and taking into account when the condition ...
A new report says only using BMI to determine if a patient has obesity leads to under-diagnosing people who are ill and ...
BMI has long been falling out of favor. When the American Medical Association urged downgrading BMI in 2023, it blamed its ...
Obesity, long determined by the flawed metric of BMI, should be diagnosed based on other measurements, experts argue.
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It's the start of another year and the body mass index (BMI) is being criticized again. This time a Lancet-commissioned group ...