A gender specialist at the University of Genoa, in Italy, a psychologist at the University of Missouri, in the U.S., and a ...
Leading health experts challenge traditional BMI measurements and introduce a comprehensive new approach to diagnosing obesity, potentially affecting millions.
Nearly 70% of adults in Indiana are classified as overweight or obese, contributing to a broader health crisis in the United ...
An international team of doctors proposed a new way to define obesity that's not based solely on BMI. Here's what they ...
The condition is better measured by looking at factors like inflammation, insulin resistance, and glucose tolerance, ...
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.
Amid renewed criticism of the body mass index (BMI) as a diagnostic criterion for obesity, a 2,000-year-old technique used by ...
New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and take into account health ...
Was actor Jake Gyllenhaal overweight when he filmed Road House? Should Kansas City Chiefs' tight end Travis Kelce be ...
In 1993, using data from white people in Great Britain, ages 16 to 64, the World Health Organization (WHO) designated BMI ...