New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular ...
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 ...
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 estimated more than one billion people in the world are living with obesity as defined by the current definition that ...
Global experts advised in addition to BMI, measuring 'waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, or waist-to-height ratio' be ...
Using body-mass index to tell who is overweight or obese is not reliable and can result in misdiagnosis, the Commission on ...
An international committee of scientists has proposed changing the way obesity is defined and diagnosed. The proposal adds ...
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 ...