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For decades, body mass index (BMI) has been the dominant tool for defining obesity, despite longstanding concerns that it poorly reflects individual health risk. Growing evidence suggests that the ...

Researchers develop a new patient-reported outcome measure that may help assess how obesity or overweight, and their ...

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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Scientists have developed a new way to measure whether a person is too fat without having people step on the scale. The new measure, called the Body Adiposity Index, or BAI, relies ...

Researchers have developed an obesity-based health index that more accurately predicted mortality in a study, according to a CMAJ report. Going beyond traditional measures of obesity like the body ...