Scientists Suggest New Way to Help Measure Obesity Instead of Just Using Traditional BMI Metric
A new report notes that the amount of belly fat a patient has is a more useful metric for determining obesity than ...
Radical new proposal from 58 medical experts would decenter BMI from obesity diagnosis
Over one billion people in the world are estimated to have obesity. Some experts believe its treatment and diagnosis need a ...
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Move aside, BMI: There's a better way to define obesity, commission finds
An international committee of scientists has proposed changing the way obesity is defined and diagnosed. The proposal adds ...
The New Definition of Obesity
Instead of BMI, the commission recommends that obesity be diagnosed through one of these methods: Using another measurement ...
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Global experts propose major overhaul of obesity diagnosis, going beyond BMI to define when obesity is a disease
"Relying on BMI alone to diagnose obesity is problematic as some people ... with joint stiffness and reduced range of motion as a direct effect of excess body fat on the joints Certain alterations ...
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Move aside BMI: There's a better way to define obesity, commission finds
Their BMI may be in the normal range, but their level of belly fat may put them at risk of metabolic disease. “What’s new is that we try to define obesity by excess body fat, which is what obe ...
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Doctors propose new definitions of obesity that would move away from BMI
In Tuesday's issue of The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, 58 international experts across a range of medical specialties ... Traditionally, obesity has been defined by size, specifically the body ...
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Travis Kelce, Jake Gyllenhaal and why BMI is problematic. It needs to change, panel says.
Researchers said using BMI alone as the sole arbiter of obesity is inadequate and doesn ... knee or hip pain, reduced range of motion due to excess body fat, heart failure or other organ dysfunction.
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Going beyond BMI: Major overhaul of obesity diagnosis proposed
“Relying on BMI alone to diagnose obesity is problematic as some people ... with joint stiffness and reduced range of motion as a direct effect of excess body fat on the joints; certain ...
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Doctors propose new definitions of obesity that would move away from BMI
In Tuesday's issue of The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, 58 international experts across a range ... obesity has been defined by size, specifically the body mass index (BMI), a ratio of weight ...
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New obesity definitions considered as world’s leading health professionals move away from Body Mass Index
Rather than just BMI, the authors from Global Commission on Clinical Obesity proposed 18 criteria for diagnosing clinical obesity, taking into account a range of problems from sleep apnoea to ...