A new study suggests that one of the most widely used health metrics, BMI, may be getting it wrong for a large portion of the ...

Research from Italy to be presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2026, Istanbul, Türkiye, 12–15 May) and ...

Researchers using the gold-standard DEXA to measure body fat percentage showed that BMI misclassified a notable proportion of ...

The greatest mismatch occurred in the underweight group. Two-thirds (13 of 19; 68.4%) of those classified as underweight by ...

By Deanna Neff HealthDay ReporterWEDNESDAY, April 1, 2026 (HealthDay News) — For decades, Body Mass Index (BMI) has been a ...

Is obesity among the most misunderstood, misclassified, and mistreated diseases? Over the past 30 years, researchers have not only identified a key hormone (leptin) that helps regulate appetite and ...

For years, medical experts have defined obesity primarily based on body mass index, which measures stored fat by calculating height and weight, to determine a person’s health risks. Major public ...

The Body Mass Index (BMI) is a widely used tool for categorizing individuals based on their weight relative to their height. While convenient for assessing health risks, its historical origins, ...

The reclassification this summer by the American Medical Association of obesity as “a disease state” effectively declared that one-third of all Americans has a medical condition requiring treatment.