UP to 25 per cent more adults could be classed as obese under a radical shake-up of the body-mass-index (BMI) system, experts ...

A large majority of Americans are walking around with too much body fat, nationally representative data suggests.

Many people meet the requirements for clinical obesity despite having a body mass index within the expected or average ranges.

Could the way doctors traditionally measure obesity allow a subset of people with obesity-related health risks to slip ...

A new study on the impact of excess weight around the midsection — aka abdominal obesity — raises questions about causes, harms, and fixes. A large new study found that about 1 in 5 adults worldwide ...

A large proportion of the population has abdominal obesity despite a normal BMI, and these individuals are at increased cardiometabolic risk, two new studies found. “Individuals with normal BMI but ...

A novel metabolic obesity assessment tool (metBMI) improves upon conventional BMI by capturing a wide array of metabolic factors that underlie obesity risks, including complex adiposity-related ...

Medically reviewed by Lauren Schlanger, MD Key Takeaways Healthcare providers use BMI as a quick way to check if you're at a ...

People who aren’t considered obese by their body mass index may still have obesity-related health risks. A study in the ...

Anthropometric measures indicate that clinical obesity is highly prevalent among adults who are classified as having a normal BMI.