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

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 ...

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

Most people assume that being thin equals being healthy. But that’s not true. In fact, you can be skinny and still obese, ...

Learn about a new study that found body mass index (BMI) may not accurately represent a person’s obesity, preventing them ...

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

Normal-weight abdominal obesity combines normal BMI (18.5–24.9) with high waist circumference. The main outcomes were hypertension, diabetes, high total cholesterol, and high triglycerides.

The study was led by Hirsh Elhence and colleagues, who examined the national prevalence of clinical obesity using newly ...

Many adults with a normal BMI may still carry excess body fat that increases the risk of diabetes, heart disease, and other ...

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

Body mass index (BMI) is not a complete measure of metabolic health, and a high proportion of U.S. adults with normal BMI still have obesity. Body mass index (BMI) is not a complete measure of ...

The prevalence of clinical obesity is high among those with normal body mass index (BMI) values, according to a research ...