An international team of doctors proposed a new way to define obesity that's not based solely on BMI. Here's what they ...
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Understanding the definition of obesity: experts examine the limitations of body-mass index (BMI) and propose alternative ...
A new report says only using BMI to determine if a patient has obesity leads to under-diagnosing people who are ill and ...
The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology published its Commission on the definition and diagnostic criteria of clinical obesity.
Obesity affects over 1 billion people globally, with 40 percent of U.S. adults classified as obese under the present ...
A group of experts from around the world are proposing an alternative way of defining clinical obesity, eschewing the ...
Obesity, long determined by the flawed metric of BMI, should be diagnosed based on other measurements, experts argue.
An international committee of scientists has proposed changing the way obesity is defined and diagnosed. The proposal adds ...
New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular ...
A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial ...
Over one billion people in the world are estimated to have obesity. Some experts believe its treatment and diagnosis need a ...