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

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

BMI has long been considered a flawed measure that can over-diagnose or underdiagnose obesity, which is currently defined as ...

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

An international team of doctors proposed a new way to define obesity that's not based solely on BMI. Here's what they ...

a marker of health”, said Dr Adam Collins, an associate professor of nutrition at the University of Surrey who was not involved in the work. BMI is more useful on a population level rather ...

Currently, anyone with a BMI of ... training of health-care workers, according to the Lancet commission. It applies to adults regardless of age, gender or ethnicity, said the University of ...

Under recommendations released Tuesday night, obesity would no longer be defined solely by BMI, a calculation ... expert at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.

BMI, a widely used measure, has long been criticized for being too simplistic. It calculates obesity based only on height and ...

“Once you factor in fitness, BMI really ... at the University of North Carolina. But when it comes to individual metrics, “VO₂ max is a much superior indicator of your overall health risk ...

This is better for patients than relying only on body mass index (BMI ... and a weight-related health condition. Children's obesity expert Prof Louise Baur, from the University of Sydney ...

New Delhi: Increased exposure to air pollution in the months prior to pregnancy is associated with higher body mass index (BMI ... health sciences at the Keck School of Medicine, University ...