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

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

In Tuesday's issue of The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, dozens of international medical experts and people with lived ...

Doctors worldwide should diagnose obesity differently, relying on broader criteria and taking into account when the condition ...

A report by The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission calls for a shift in obesity diagnosis, proposing a more ...

More than 1 billion people worldwide live with obesity, and the condition is linked to about 5 million deaths every year from ...

A group of experts from around the world are proposing an alternative way of defining clinical obesity, eschewing the ...

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

As of March 2020, nearly 42% of US adults had obesity, with the report estimating that more than a billion people are living ...

According to the researchers, the healthcare sector, online medical repositories and hospitals were generating vast amounts ...

Clinical obesity’ and 'pre-clinical obesity' have been introduced as the new categories for diagnosing obesity, which they ...

“Weight bias is stronger in people who think obesity is easily reversed by just deciding to eat less and exercise more,” says ...