Research from Italy to be presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2026, Istanbul, Türkiye, 12–15 May) and published in the journal Nutrients shows that when the gold standard ...

People may be misdiagnosed as overweight or obese under the body mass index (BMI) system, a study suggests.

Body mass index (BMI) measure used by the NHS wrongly classified 34% of people as obese while 53% were wrongly told they were overweight ...

BMI ‘misclassifying’ people as overweight or obese, new study warns - Researchers in Italy compared the tool to scans which provide an analysis of fat, muscle and bone in the body ...

New research to be presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2025, Malaga, Spain, 11-14 May) shows that the internationally recognized body mass index (BMI) cut-off points greatly ...

The body mass index (BMI) system may be incorrectly categorising people as overweight or obese, according to a new study.

The medical community is witnessing a significant shift in how obesity is diagnosed and treated, affecting over 100 million adults in the United States. Traditional methods centered around Body Mass ...

Employing selection criteria resulted in 1,981 respondents in the analytical sample. Table 1 reports the results of the descriptive statistics analysis. Of the respondents, 477 were classified as ...

VENICE, Italy — Obesity as defined by adiposity measures corresponds to a lower body mass index (BMI) cutoff (≥ 27) in men and women of middle age or older than does the widely used conventional ...

Most of us in Western medicine systems know which category of the body mass index, the “BMI,” our body matches. Our medical providers and the printouts after each office visit often highlight it for ...

New research to be presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2025, Malaga, Spain, 11-14 May) shows that the internationally recognised body mass index (BMI) cut-off points greatly ...