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

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 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,

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 ...

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

BMI is a 53-year-old metric that 58 expert researchers suggest officially needs an update—here's what they say is the more reliable way to determine healthy body weight.

BMI is a 53-year-old metric that experts suggest needs an update—here's what they say is the more reliable way to determine healthy weight.

Instead of using the controversial body mass index, or BMI, to assess weight, an international group of scientists proposes an approach that looks at how excess body fat affects health

BMI has long been considered a flawed measure that can over-diagnose or underdiagnose obesity, which is currently defined as a BMI of 30 or more. But people with excess body fat do not always have a BMI above 30, the report notes. And people with high muscle mass — football players or other athletes — may have a high BMI despite normal fat mass.

A global group of experts has suggested a new approach to diagnosing and treating obesity that does not rely solely on the much-contested body mass index (BMI).

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 ...

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 ...