Obesity: Avoid using BMI alone when evaluating patients, say US doctors’ leaders
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The American Medical Association issued a report and policy recommendation in June 2023 urging medical professionals to do more comprehensive assessments of overweight and rely less on BMI.
“The American Medical Association (AMA) issued a report and policy recommendation in June 2023 that urged medical professionals to do more comprehensive assessments of overweight and rely less on BMI [23,24].”
From Advantages and Limitations of the Body Mass Index (BMI) to Assess Adult Obesity (2024) · cites this paper as [24]
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Hampl, S. E., Hassink, S. G., Skinner, A. C., Armstrong, S. C., Barlow, S. E., Bolling, C. F., Avila Edwards, K. C., Eneli, I., Hamre, R., Joseph, M. M., et al. (2023) · Pediatrics · doi:10.1542/peds.2022-060640 · Cited by 1,389 · see citing works
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Advantages and Limitations of the Body Mass Index (BMI) to Assess Adult Obesity
Wu, Y., Li, D., & Vermund, S. H. (2024) · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · doi:10.3390/ijerph21060757 · Cited by 332 · see citing works
“The American Medical Association (AMA) issued a report and policy recommendation in June 2023 that urged medical professionals to do more comprehensive assessments of overweight and rely less on BMI [23,24].”
Background
- Authors
- Tanne, J. H.
- Corresponding author
- Tanne, Janice Hopkins
- Venue
- BMJ
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Published
- 2023-06-19
- Volume
- 381
- Pages
- p1400
- ISSN
- 1756-1833 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4381185746
- Cited by
- 28
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 2
- Type
- other
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.bmj.com/company/legal-information/terms-conditions/legal-information/tdm-licencepolicy (tdm)
- Locations
- BMJ (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- HighWire Press Open Archive (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Pharmacy › Obesity and Health Practices
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Body Composition Measurement Techniques
- Keywords
- obesity, body mass index, obesity assessment, clinical guidelines
- MeSH terms
- Humans, Obesity, Patients, Physician-Patient Relations, Physicians, Body Mass Index
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