BMI is measured by dividing your weight by the square of your ... “At-home measurements will only give a ballpark — the clinic-based machines are more precise.” The new study analyzed data on 4,252 ...

“BMI really was a measurement created for epidemiology to give data that was relative and could be used in research,” said Dr. Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, an obesity expert at the Mayo Clinic in ...

A group of 58 researchers is calling for a new, better way to measure obesity and excess body fat that goes beyond BMI. Here's what they recommend using instead.

The BMI measure is commonly included in the prescribing directions for weight loss drugs. Some of the newest and most effective drugs, such as Wegovy, limit use to patients who have a BMI of 30 or ...

BMI was developed some 200 years ago, based on data from men, ... “Patients feel very conscious about their circumference, and if you start measuring it in the clinic, ...

The BMI measure is commonly included in the prescribing directions for weight loss drugs. ... a psychologist and registered dietitian at Cleveland Clinic’s Bariatric and Metabolic Institute.

Interestingly, it appears that people outside of medicine have been more skeptical of BMI than those in the medical community, said Lopez-Jimenez, the Mayo Clinic cardiologist.

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, Dr ...

The BMI's really old, non-medical and racist origins The first thing to know about the BMI is that it was created by a Belgian mathematician — not a doctor or health practitioner.

In BMI world, a body mass between 18.5 and 24.9 is a healthy weight, between 25 and 29.9 is overweight, between 30 and 34.9 is obese, between 35 and 39.9 is class 2 obesity, and anything greater ...