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 noted that body mass index does not provide a nuanced enough assessment of health as it relates to weight ...

BMI, a widely used measure, has long been criticized for being too simplistic. It calculates obesity based only on height and ...

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

“I would consider it an epidemic,” Marie Ng, an affiliate associate professor at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington ... study say BMI may not ...

A new report published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology challenges the conventional reliance on Body Mass Index (BMI) ...

Experts are proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial body mass index (BMI ... obesity expert at the University of Washington and one of ...

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 ...

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 ...