Body Mass Index, or BMI, has long been criticized as an unreliable method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts ...
How we define obesity needs to become more nuanced, a report has argued, with BMI (body mass index) as a measure alone being ...
BMI has long been falling out of favor. When the American Medical Association urged downgrading BMI in 2023, it blamed its ...
Our reframing acknowledges the nuanced reality of obesity and allows for personalized care,” said Dr. Francesco Rubino of ...
“We recommend that BMI should be used only as a surrogate measure of health risk at a population level, for epidemiological ...
The BMI, a weight-to-height ratio, has been criticised as too simplistic as it cannot distinguish between fat and muscle mass ...
It's the start of another year and the body mass index (BMI) is being criticized again. This time a Lancet-commissioned group ...