Obesity affects over 1 billion people globally, with 40 percent of U.S. adults classified as obese under the present ...

Body Mass Index, or BMI, has long been criticized as an unreliable method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts ...

Under recommendations released Tuesday night, obesity would no longer be defined solely by BMI, a calculation of height and ...

BMI falls short as a way to measure obesity. Doctors need to also determine whether body fat harms a person's health.

New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular ...

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

A crude measure of weight relative to height, BMI is commonly used to diagnose obesity—even though many experts and ...

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

An international group of experts proposes two new categories of disease: preclinical and clinical obesity and the FDA ...