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 ...

Body mass index score is used to ascertain whether an individual's body weight is normal or in excess with respect to one's ...

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.