A growing number of researchers are calling for the end of BMI as a measure of health, arguing it’s outdated, misleading, and rooted in discrimination.

By applying this new framework to a test group of more than 300,000 patients, researchers found that the number of obese ...

Visceral fat, which wraps around internal organs, and hepatic fat stored in the liver increase the risk of heart disease ...

しかし、肥満の人が多く蓄えている内臓脂肪の脂肪細胞からは、インスリンの働きが悪くなる炎症物質が分泌されるため、食事によってブドウ糖が血液中に入っても、筋肉などに取り込まれない。その結果、血糖値が高くなる。

The proposed new definition of obesity incorporates body mass index (BMI) with other measurements like waist circumference.