Leading health experts challenge traditional BMI measurements and introduce a comprehensive new approach to diagnosing obesity, potentially affecting millions.

While the new recommendations still uses BMI as a "first pass" screening tool, it drills down into whether a person has pre-clinical obesity or clinic obesity with other means of measure ...

Obesity, long determined by the flawed metric of BMI, should be diagnosed based on other measurements, experts argue.

An international and widely supported group of experts is pushing doctors to avoid the exclusive use of BMI to decide whether someone has obesity, alongside other major changes.

A commission proposed a new definition of obesity focused on how excess fat affects the body, rather than assessing body mass ...

Who hasn’t hasn’t been asked to step on that monstrous machine ... explains Dr Esther Fox, a clinical specialist and director of Mount Kelly Physiotherapy Centre. “BMI picks up either ...

Currently, the BMI cutoff is 30 for the increasingly popular GLP-1 drugs. David J. Phillip/AP file Share Doctors should stop relying solely on a patient’s body mass index to diagnose obesity and ...