Study Shows BMI Often Gets Your Weight Category Wrong

By Deanna Neff HealthDay ReporterWEDNESDAY, April 1, 2026 (HealthDay News) — For decades, Body Mass Index (BMI) has been a ...

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 ...

Your BMI Might Be Wrong: Study Finds Millions Are Misclassified

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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Scientists say BMI gets it wrong for over one third of adults

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 ...
Rolling Out

Doctors reveals why BMI alone can’t determine obesity

The medical community is witnessing a significant shift in how obesity is diagnosed and treated, affecting over 100 million adults in the United States. Traditional methods centered around Body Mass ...
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Is BMI an accurate measure of body fat?

India, March 30 -- The conventional body mass index (BMI) system by the World Health Organization frequently misidentifies ...
Medscape

The Association of Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviors, and Body Mass Index Classification in a Cross-sectional Analysis

Employing selection criteria resulted in 1,981 respondents in the analytical sample. Table 1 reports the results of the descriptive statistics analysis. Of the respondents, 477 were classified as ...
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Traditional BMI cut-offs overestimate overweight and obesity in male athletes

New research to be presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2025, Malaga, Spain, 11-14 May) shows that the internationally recognized body mass index (BMI) cut-off points greatly ...