Call to overhaul obesity diagnoses amid fears of over-reliance on BMI | Obesity

Doctors are proposing a “radical overhaul” of how obesity is diagnosed around the world, amid concerns that reliance on BMI is causing millions of people to be misdiagnosed. More than one billion people are thought to be living with the condition, which is used to measure a person's BMI (height-to-weight ratio) to estimate the amount […]