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 ...

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

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

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

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

By coincidence (they started before GLP -1 drugs were approved for slimming), a group of 56 doctors have just answered that ...

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

Obesity, recognized as a complex and growing health issue, is associated with an increased risk of various cancers. A ...

The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology published its Commission on the definition and diagnostic criteria of clinical obesity.