Body Mass Index, or BMI, has long been criticized as an unreliable method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts ...
New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular ...
New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health ...
Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...
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 ...
The Global Commission on Clinical Obesity has put forward 18 criteria for diagnosing clinical obesity, moving away from the ...
In a study of more than 5,000 mothers and their children, exposure to air pollution during the three months before pregnancy ...
An international committee of scientists has proposed changing the way obesity is defined and diagnosed. The proposal adds ...