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 ...

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 ...

A new report published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology challenges the conventional reliance on Body Mass Index (BMI) ...

“I would consider it an epidemic,” Marie Ng, an affiliate associate professor at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington ... study say BMI may not ...