Over 26% of U.S. adults with a normal BMI met new criteria for clinical obesity proposed by the Lancet commission. About 78% of adults had excess adiposity if defined by using two or three abnormal ...

Anthropometric measures indicate that clinical obesity is highly prevalent among adults who are classified as having a normal BMI.

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 through the cracks? Medical experts have typically calculated obesity using body ...

Body mass index (BMI) is not a complete measure of metabolic health, and a high proportion of U.S. adults with normal BMI still have obesity. Body mass index (BMI) is not a complete measure of ...

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

Your weight may look normal on the scale, but dangerous fat hidden around your organs could still be increasing your risk of ...

Overweight patients showed worse progression-free and overall survival rates compared to normal weight and obese patients, indicating a U-shaped relationship between BMI and CAR T-cell therapy ...