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

A group of 58 researchers is calling for a new, better way to measure obesity and excess body fat that goes beyond BMI.

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

Childhood BMI trends — specifically moderate BMI and high BMI variability — were associated with high cortisol concentrations at 17 years of age.

However, this classification system assumes that weight alone is a reliable indicator of health, disregarding important ...

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

This article was reviewed by Craig Primack, MD, FACP, FAAP, FOMA. We’ll start at the very beginning: Body mass index (BMI) is a measure of someone’s weight compared to their height whereas ...

Dr. Leana Wen: Body mass index, or BMI, is a calculation performed by dividing a patient’s weight in kilograms by their height in meters squared. For those who are more used to weight in pounds ...

A person’s BMI is calculated by dividing his or her weight by the square of his or her height in feet. “Obesity is a complex problem and has different significance at the individual level ...

A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial ...