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

Global experts advised in addition to BMI, measuring 'waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, or waist-to-height ratio' be ...

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

The Global Commission on Clinical Obesity has put forward 18 criteria for diagnosing clinical obesity, moving away from the ...

New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular ...

A new report says only using BMI to determine if a patient has obesity leads to under-diagnosing people who are ill and ...

Inspector-General of Police Razarudin Husain says any officers whose BMI reading is above 28 could lose out on promotion.

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

In a study of more than 5,000 mothers and their children, exposure to air pollution during the three months before pregnancy ...

An international group of experts proposes two new categories of disease: preclinical and clinical obesity and the FDA ...

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