A recently published LongITools study led by the University of Oulu identified two new childhood BMI patterns, challenging ...

Body mass index (BMI) has been the international standard for measuring obesity since the 1980s, according to many sources, though some experts have questioned its validity. "Obesity is a complex ...

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

High financing costs and low demand from end users are hobbling the growth of green hydrogen production capacity globally, with many projects unable to progress beyond the planning stage, according to ...

A commission proposed a new definition of obesity focused on how excess fat affects the body, rather than assessing body mass index, that could change clinical care.

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

Because it is easy to measure and compare, BMI has long been used as a tool to diagnose obesity. But it doesn’t offer a full picture of a person’s health, because it doesn’t account for ...

BMI can tell us about the health of populations ... leading it to develop a new framework for diagnosis and treatment. The commission, an international group of experts including people with ...

An international committee of scientists has ... used to determine whether a person has obesity is to calculate their BMI — or body mass index. BMI is a quick and inexpensive estimate based ...

The way obesity is diagnosed needs to become more sophisticated, an international commission has concluded. Using body-mass index to tell who is overweight or obese is not reliable and can result ...

an international commission proposed a revised definition of obesity that focuses on how excess body fat affects the body, and factors in waist circumference, rather than simply calculating BMI.