Report: Obesity needs redefinition — BMI shouldn’t be used as measure of health
“We recommend that BMI should be used only as a surrogate measure of health risk at a population level, for epidemiological studies, or for screening purposes, rather than as an individual measure of health,” the report reads.
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International experts call for broader obesity diagnosis criteria, as 1 billion globally estimated obeseDoctors worldwide should adopt a more comprehensive approach to diagnosing obesity, incorporating broader criteria and ...
New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health ...
BMI has long been falling out of favor. When the American Medical Association urged downgrading BMI in 2023, it blamed its ...
An international commission made the case for focusing on body fat quantity and the illnesses people experience.
Obesity, long determined by the flawed metric of BMI, should be diagnosed based on other measurements, experts argue.
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Our reframing acknowledges the nuanced reality of obesity and allows for personalized care,” said Dr. Francesco Rubino of ...
A new report says only using BMI to determine if a patient has obesity leads to under-diagnosing people who are ill and ...
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Body mass index an 'inadequate' measurement of obesity, experts sayGlobal experts advised in addition to BMI, measuring 'waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, or waist-to-height ratio' be ...
Instead of BMI, the commission recommends that obesity be diagnosed through one of these methods: Using another measurement ...
The Global Commission on Clinical Obesity has put forward 18 criteria for diagnosing clinical obesity, moving away from the ...
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