Current BMI classification may overestimate the prevalence of underweight, overweight, and obesity among the general population.
The greatest mismatch occurred in the underweight group. Two-thirds (13 of 19; 68.4%) of those classified as underweight by ...
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BMI classification system wrongly identifies some people as having overweight or obesity, says study
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 ...
In 2024, the European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO) published an updated framework for classifying obesity that recognizes that the use of BMI is a limited tool in defining the condition ...
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 ...
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Checking BMI for body weight? It can wrongly mark you as overweight or obese, says study
More than one-third (34 percent) of those with obesity defined by BMI had been misclassified and should be in the overweight ...
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To evaluate the relation between body fatness (%Fat) and body mass index (BMI) and to evaluate the validity of the BMI standards for obesity established by the NIH in older black and white ...
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