According to a September 2024 data brief from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 40.3 percent of U.S.

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

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Researchers highlight that having a normal BMI does not always indicate good health, as high body fat can increase the risk ...

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Indian doctors have revised obesity guidelines for the first time in 15 years, moving beyond the traditional BMI tool to ...

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

The term overweight is no more a part of the India-specific obesity guidelines that were revised after nearly 15 years and ...

It's the start of another year and the body mass index (BMI) is being criticised again . This time a Lancet-commissioned group of experts is ...

Body Mass Index, or BMI, has long been criticized as an unreliable method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts ...

Relying solely on BMI to diagnose obesity may be outdated, say global experts. A new report calls for a more comprehensive ...

Using body-mass index to tell who is overweight or obese is not reliable and can result in misdiagnosis, the Commission on ...