A group of 58 researchers is calling for a new, better way to measure obesity and excess body fat that goes beyond BMI.

While the new recommendations still uses BMI as a "first pass" screening tool, it drills down into whether a person has pre-clinical obesity or clinic obesity with other means of measure ...

Instead of using the controversial body mass index, or BMI, to assess weight, an international group of scientists proposes ...

a sports medicine doctor at The Alpine Clinic in Plymouth, New Hampshire. “If [a person] winds up in a BMI or [body fat percentage] category significantly above or below the norm, that could be ...

Patients with vitiligo or alopecia areata had lower BMI and lipid dysregulation, but this relationship was not observed in patients with psoriasis.

“We recommend that clinicians thoroughly assess people with obesity in the clinic and use other measures of body size — waist circumference or others — to understand if an increased BMI ...