A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial ...

A new report says only using BMI to determine if a patient has obesity leads to under-diagnosing people who are ill and ...

It's the start of another year and the body mass index (BMI) is being criticized again. This time a Lancet-commissioned group ...

Global experts advised in addition to BMI, measuring 'waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, or waist-to-height ratio' be ...

If you’re short on time, Stoner recommends the three-minute step test as another alternative that offers a score of aerobic ...

The increase in breast cancer rates among younger patients is occurring as the incidence of other early-onset cancers — ...

In a study of more than 5,000 mothers and their children, exposure to air pollution during the three months before pregnancy ...

A global Commission, published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology and endorsed by 75 medical organizations around the world, presents a novel, nuanced approach to diagnose obesity, based on other ...

An international group of experts proposes two new categories of disease: preclinical and clinical obesity and the FDA ...

BMI has long been considered a flawed measure that can over-diagnose or underdiagnose obesity, which is currently defined as ...

The way obesity is currently diagnosed needs to be changed, according to an international group of experts.The Commission on Clinical Obesity says body mass ind ...

Obesity affects over 1 billion people globally, with 40 percent of U.S. adults classified as obese under the present ...