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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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.