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 BMI of 30 or above generally classifies adults as having obesity, according to the WHO ... It’s up to individual doctors and health care systems to decide whether to put these guidelines ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

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 ...

Using body-mass index to tell who is overweight or obese is not reliable and can result in misdiagnosis, the Commission on ...

Now health care experts say one-size-does-not-fit-all. It’s been used for more than 100 years but doctors around the world say it’s time to move the field forward when it comes to body mass index.

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

At the moment, clinicians use BMI or body mass index to diagnose obesity, a calculation based ... which could help better use healthcare resources. They said it was not yet clear if it would ...