BMI falls short as a way to measure obesity. Doctors need to also determine whether body fat harms a person's health.

BMI has long been considered a flawed measure that can over-diagnose or underdiagnose obesity, which is currently defined as ...

The average American woman weighs about 170 pounds and stands about 5 feet, 4 inches tall. But it’s important to remember ...

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Women’s health specialist nurse Ruth Bailey provides an update on what GPNs need to know about offering emergency ...

A global group of experts has suggested a new approach to diagnosing and treating obesity that does not rely solely on the much-contested body mass index (BMI).

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

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

The average cup size in the US is a C on average, data from the California-based World Population Review suggest, putting it ...

People are being "overdiagnosed" with obesity because the body mass index (BMI) is not "nuanced" enough, leading medics have warned. A commission of more than 50 international experts said solely ...

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