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 the start of another year and the body mass index (BMI) is being criticized again. This time a Lancet-commissioned group ...
Global experts advised in addition to BMI, measuring 'waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, or waist-to-height ratio' be ...
If you’re short on time, Stoner recommends the three-minute step test as another alternative that offers a score of aerobic ...
In a study of more than 5,000 mothers and their children, exposure to air pollution during the three months before pregnancy ...
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 ...
An international group of experts proposes two new categories of disease: preclinical and clinical obesity and the FDA ...
Obesity affects over 1 billion people globally, with 40 percent of U.S. adults classified as obese under the present ...
New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health ...
A group of experts says Body Mass Index, or BMI, used by doctors to measure obesity, is not a good method. CBS News medical ...
New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular ...