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

The key difference is that BMI is a screening tool, while clinical obesity is a disease diagnosis, based on symptoms, body ...

CHICAGO -- Clinicians have been urged to relay on BMI to determine whether or not a child is obese, but there may be as many drawbacks as benefits to this type of screening -- as even the "pro" ...

The beginning was in 2003. Laws requiring school systems to evaluate children using body-mass index (BMI) instruments—a common approach for grouping people based on height and weight—have passed 29 ...

Despite the limitations of body mass index (BMI), the measure effectively screened children and adolescents for elevated adiposity, both as expressed by fat mass index (FMI) and percentage of body fat ...

New diagnostic framework's obesity criteria would capture many with normal BMI ...

Screenings can actually cause more harm than good, activists say I remember opening the envelope holding my daughters’ report cards from their New York City elementary school a few years ago and ...

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

Measuring the body mass index (BMI) of younger children may often fail to identify those with excess stomach fat, reports a new study. The findings of the study are published in the journal Pediatric ...

This article was reviewed by Craig Primack, MD, FACP, FAAP, FOMA.We’ll start at the very beginning: Body mass index (BMI) is a measure of someone’s weight compared to their height whereas body fat ...

When assessing whether preschoolers are overweight, health professionals should use other measures such as waist-to-height ratio in addition to the Body Mass Index (BMI). A study published in the ...

Insulin resistance markers and BMI were more effective in detecting steatotic liver disease among adolescents and young ...