People with higher body mass indexes say they're relieved by experts' new guidance to downplay the use of BMI in diagnosing people with weight problems or obesity.

Over one billion people in the world are estimated to have obesity. Some experts believe its treatment and diagnosis need a ...

Instead of BMI, the commission recommends that obesity be diagnosed through one of these methods: Using another measurement ...

An international committee of scientists has proposed changing the way obesity is defined and diagnosed. The proposal adds ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A group of Australian and international experts are calling for a major overhaul of obesity diagnosis, saying current methods ...

“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 ...