BMI, Obesity

Body Mass Index, or BMI, has long been criticized as an unreliable method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts ...
A new report says only using BMI to determine if a patient has obesity leads to under-diagnosing people who are ill and ...
An international commission made the case for focusing on body fat quantity and the illnesses people experience.
New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health ...
Global experts advised in addition to BMI, measuring 'waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, or waist-to-height ratio' be ...
A group of experts says Body Mass Index, or BMI, used by doctors to measure obesity, is not a good method. CBS News medical ...
Using body-mass index to tell who is overweight or obese is not reliable and can result in misdiagnosis, the Commission on ...
In a study of more than 5,000 mothers and their children, exposure to air pollution during the three months before pregnancy predicted higher child body mass index (BMI) and related obesity risk ...