People with higher body mass indexes say they're relieved by experts' new guidance to downplay the use of BMI in diagnosing people with weight problems or obesity.

An international committee of scientists has proposed changing the way obesity is defined and diagnosed. The proposal adds ...

A new report noted that body mass index does not provide a nuanced enough assessment of health as it relates to weight ...

BMI is a person ... at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a Northwestern Medicine physician. One way to change the system is to influence health insurer policies.

There may be a more effective way to define and diagnose obesity, according to a commission of scientists that proposed a major change regarding the metabolic disease. Body mass index (BMI), a ...

New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes ... and professor of medicine and medical education at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, in an interview ...

As of late, critics have called BMI an unreliable measure of health. “BMI-based measures ... a professor of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a Northwestern ...

BMI is a quick and inexpensive estimate based on weight and height. But BMI doesn't provide adequate information about a person's health ... an endocrinologist at Northwestern University who ...

Obesity is currently defined as a BMI of 30 or above in adults. New guidance from a team of health experts around ... of medicine and medical education at Northwestern University's Feinberg ...