A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial ...
New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and take into account health ...
Instead of using the controversial body mass index, or BMI, to assess weight, an international group of scientists proposes ...
A new report noted that body mass index does not provide a nuanced enough assessment of health as it relates to weight ...
A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial ...
An international team of doctors proposed a new way to define obesity that's not based solely on BMI. Here's what they ...
The use of weight-loss jabs may be associated with wider health benefits including ... The observational study, led by Washington University clinical epidemiologist Dr Ziyad Al-Aly, analysed ...
More than 50 experts in fields such as nutrition, endocrinology and public health published their ... Cummings — an obesity expert at the University of Washington and another researcher on ...
Under recommendations released Tuesday night, obesity would no longer be defined solely by BMI, a calculation ... expert at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
The panel suggests using body fat measures and the presence of pre-existing health concerns, but warns against using BMI alone as an ... education at Northwestern University's Feinberg School ...
BMI, a widely used measure, has long been criticized for being too simplistic. It calculates obesity based only on height and ...
New Delhi: Increased exposure to air pollution in the months prior to pregnancy is associated with higher body mass index (BMI ... health sciences at the Keck School of Medicine, University ...