A global commission gathered by The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology magazine argues that BMI, the conventional method for assessing obesity, yields inaccurate results. They recommend confirming ...

But this measure, called body mass index, or BMI, lacks nuance and fails to tell whether a person is truly healthy, a global commission of medical experts said in a paper published Tuesday in The ...

In a commentary sent to reporters on Tuesday, BMI said Trump’s return to the White House and the accompanying policy overhang will keep the dollar strong. But very aggressive protectionism would ...

Because it is easy to measure and compare, BMI has long been used as a tool to diagnose obesity. But it doesn’t offer a full picture of a person’s health, because it doesn’t account for ...

Share on Pinterest A panel of global experts explains why BMI is not the most helpful measurement of body weight, and how else doctors can diagnose obesity. Image credit: VICTOR TORRES/Stocksy.

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 ...

Under recommendations released Tuesday night, obesity would no longer be defined solely by BMI, a calculation of ... need the help most,” said Dr. David Cummings, an obesity expert at the ...

A Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology global commission on clinical obesity published Tuesday acknowledges that BMI — the familiar metric derived from height and weight — may be useful as a ...

Researchers highlight that having a normal BMI does not always indicate good health, as high body fat can increase the risk of diseases like diabetes and heart disease. They recommend strength ...

Body mass index (BMI) has been the international standard for measuring obesity since the 1980s, according to many sources, though some experts have questioned its validity. "Obesity is a complex ...

BMI is a person’s weight in kilograms divided ... as obese would go up or down if these changes were adopted. Dr. David E. Cummings, a commissioner and professor of medicine at the University ...

A new report argues that body mass index or BMI is not the most accurate way to define obesity. BMI is only a measure of a person’s weight and height and does not account for muscle mass.