Indian doctors have revised obesity guidelines for the first time in 15 years, moving beyond the traditional BMI tool to include metrics like ... enabling fair allocation of healthcare resources and ...

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But this measure, called body mass index, or BMI, lacks nuance and fails to tell ... said Robert Eckel, a University of Colorado Anschutz professor and one of more than 50 medical experts who ...

The current BMI-based measure of obesity can both overestimate and underestimate how much body fat a person has, explains Dr. Robert Kushner, an endocrinologist at Northwestern University who is part ...

The way that doctors judge how overweight we are, a measure called body mass index or BMI, is unreliable and ... a professor of general practice at the University of Cambridge, who wasn’t ...

New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular body mass index (BMI ... education at Northwestern University's Feinberg ...

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health problems from extra weight and other measurements ...

Under recommendations released Tuesday night, obesity would no longer be defined solely by BMI, a calculation of ... an obesity expert at the University of Washington and one of the 58 authors ...

Doctors have primarily relied on body mass index, or BMI, to diagnose obesity ... She holds a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience from the University of Virginia and a master’s degree in ...