For years, medical experts have defined obesity primarily based on body mass index, which measures stored fat by calculating ...

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

A larger body doesn’t necessarily mean you have ‘clinical obesity’, according to a proposed new definition of the disease.

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

Instead of using the controversial body mass index, or BMI, to assess weight, an international group of scientists proposes ...

Global health leaders have proposed a “dramatic overhaul” of the way doctors look at obesity, publishing new guidelines that split the definition ... moving beyond Body Mass Index (BMI ...

A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial body mass index and ... to get a more precise definition so that we ...

Traditionally, obesity has been defined by size, specifically the body mass index (BMI), a ratio of weight to height ... which can contribute to misdiagnosis of obesity under the traditional ...

Using body-mass index (BMI) to tell who is overweight or obese is not ... “We also urge better training for healthcare workers and policymakers to tackle this issue.” A new definition of obesity could ...

According to the current definition of "overweight" and "obesity," a ratio of height and weight, both men meet those standards. But this measure, called body mass index, or BMI, lacks nuance and ...

A global commission of 56 medical experts is proposing a major overhaul of how obesity is defined and diagnosed, going beyond just body mass index ... could change if the definition and diagnosis ...