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 ...
The way clinicians diagnose obesity is set to change with new guidelines acknowledging that not all obese have the same ...
New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health ...
BMI has long been falling out of favor. When the American Medical Association urged downgrading BMI in 2023, it blamed its ...
A new report says only using BMI to determine if a patient has obesity leads to under-diagnosing people who are ill and ...
An international commission made the case for focusing on body fat quantity and the illnesses people experience.
The Global Commission on Clinical Obesity has put forward 18 criteria for diagnosing clinical obesity, moving away from the ...