A new study suggests that one of the most widely used health metrics, BMI, may be getting it wrong for a large portion of the ...

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 ...

The greatest mismatch occurred in the underweight group. Two-thirds (13 of 19; 68.4%) of those classified as underweight by ...

BMI ‘misclassifying’ people as overweight or obese, new study warns - Researchers in Italy compared the tool to scans which ...

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

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers calculated that a BMI cutoff of 33.7 kg/m 2 should be used to diagnose obesity in male athletes.

More than one-third (34 percent) of those with obesity defined by BMI had been misclassified and should be in the overweight ...

Changes in body composition with ageing—increases in body fat and declines in muscle—mean that BMI is not accurate in predicting obesity in middle-aged and older adults. BMI identified half as many ...