Under recommendations released Tuesday night, obesity would no longer be defined solely by BMI, a calculation ... an obesity expert at the University of Washington and one of the 58 authors ...

A new report noted that body mass index does not provide a nuanced enough assessment of health as it relates to weight

BMI, a widely used measure, has long been criticized for being too simplistic. It calculates obesity based only on height and weight, often misclassifying individuals. For example, athletes with high muscle mass may have a high BMI despite having normal fat levels.

Obesity affects over 1 billion people globally, with 40 percent of U.S. adults classified as obese under the present framework,

A new report published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology challenges the conventional reliance on Body Mass Index (BMI) to diagnose obesity, advocating for a more nuanced definition. The international commission,

BMI is a person’s weight in kilograms ... Cummings, a commissioner and professor of medicine at the University of Washington, told The Post that’s being studied. This graphic shows how ...

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health problems from extra weight and other measurements

Under recommendations released Tuesday night, obesity would no longer be defined solely by BMI, a calculation ... an obesity expert at the University of Washington and one of the 58 authors ...

A group of 58 researchers is calling for a new, better way to measure obesity and excess body fat that goes beyond BMI. Here's what they recommend using instead.

People with higher body mass indexes say they're relieved by experts' new guidance to downplay the use of BMI in diagnosing people with weight problems or obesity.

Doctors have primarily relied on body mass index, or BMI, to diagnose ... journalist based in Washington, DC. She holds a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience from the University of Virginia ...

The researchers are advocating for a new approach that emphasises the impact of excess body fat on health, rather than relying solely on Body Mass Index (BMI).