TUESDAY, April 7, 2026 -- Current body mass index (BMI) classification may overestimate the prevalence of underweight, overweight, and obesity among...
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Research from Italy to be presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2026, Istanbul, Turkey, 12-15 May) and published in the journal Nutrients shows that when the gold standard technique of dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) is used to measure body fat in the general population, it shows that the traditional WHO body mass index (BMI) classification system misidentifies significant numbers of people as having overweight or obesity.
TUESDAY, April 7, 2026 -- Current body mass index (BMI) classification may overestimate the prevalence of underweight, overweight, and obesity among...
Traditional BMI system often misclassifies body fat, wrongly labeling many as overweight or obese while missing others with high fat despite a...
In new research to be presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO2026) in Istanbul, Turkey (12-15 May), researchers show an increased...
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