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Lancet Report Declares BMI an Incomplete Measure of Obesity, Urges Diagnostic Overhaul
A new Lancet report calls for redefining obesity labeling BMI alone as unreliable Learn about the proposed categories and a more precise approach to diagnosis and care ...
Travis Kelce, Jake Gyllenhaal and why BMI is problematic. It needs to change, panel says.
BMI falls short as a way to measure obesity. Doctors need to also determine whether body fat harms a person's health.
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Beyond BMI: New report reframes obesity as a spectrum of illness, not just a risk factor
BMI has long been falling out of favor. When the American Medical Association urged downgrading BMI in 2023, it blamed its ...
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Air pollution before conception may increase child BMI
In a study of more than 5,000 mothers and their children, exposure to air pollution during the three months before pregnancy ...
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Healthy body mass index now required for promotion, says IGP
Police officers must have a body mass index (BMI) of less than 28 to be considered for promotion, says Inspector-General of ...
New obesity definitions considered as world’s leading health professionals move away from Body Mass Index
The Global Commission on Clinical Obesity has put forward 18 criteria for diagnosing clinical obesity, moving away from the ...
Doctors propose new criteria for assessing obesity, call body mass index unreliable
The revised criteria proposed by a nationwide panel of doctors define values of BMI greater than 23 without any effects on ...
Forget BMI – there’s a 2,000 year-old technique for measuring body fat that’s more useful
BMI is clearly not an accurate indicator of health. Instead, it would be useful to access a direct measure of the percentage of body fat that is so closely linked to cardiovascular disease. To do that ...