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 ...

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 ...

Obesity is currently defined using a person's body mass index, or BMI. This is calculated as weight (in kilograms) divided by ...

The term overweight is no more a part of the India-specific obesity guidelines that were revised after nearly 15 years and ...

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

Indian doctors have revised obesity guidelines for the first time in 15 years, moving beyond the traditional BMI tool to ...

Indian doctors have introduced new guidelines to address the growing obesity crisis, categorising it into two stages and ...

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