Instead of using the controversial body mass index, or BMI, to assess weight, an international group of scientists proposes ...

Novo Nordisk said on Friday a late-stage trial with a high-dose version of its weight loss drug semaglutide helped overweight ...

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

Using body-mass index to tell who is overweight or obese is not reliable and can result in misdiagnosis, the Commission on ...

Doctors worldwide should diagnose obesity differently, relying on broader criteria and taking into account when the condition ...

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

Obesity is typically assessed by measuring someone's body mass index, but now researchers are calling for a more nuanced ...

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

A group of experts from around the world are proposing an alternative way of defining clinical obesity, eschewing the ...

Obesity, long determined by the flawed metric of BMI, should be diagnosed based on other measurements, experts argue.