New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular ...

A global group of experts has suggested a new approach to diagnosing and treating obesity that does not rely solely on the ...

Instead of using the controversial body mass index, or BMI, to assess weight, an international group of scientists proposes ...

The Global Commission on Clinical Obesity has put forward 18 criteria for diagnosing clinical obesity, moving away from the ...

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health ...

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

Urging an overhaul of how obesity is diagnosed, a Lancet Global Commission report has recommended a new, nuanced approach that looks at measures of body fat such as waist circumference or waist-to ...

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

The proposed changes, announced on Wednesday, have been five years in the making and aim to reframe obesity by moving beyond Body Mass Index (BMI) calculations. The authors determined that ...

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

Obesity is currently defined as a BMI of 30 or above in adults. New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular body ...