Medical experts have urged a shift away from the Body Mass Index (BMI) as the main yardstick to determine obesity as it does ...

Treating the growing problem of childhood obesity calls for exploring new approaches and treatments through well-designed ...

Experts suggest redefining obesity diagnosis with BMI, waist size, and health factors to improve treatment accuracy.

Doctors check a person's body mass index by dividing their weight in kilometres by the square of their height in metres. If ...

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

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 ...

BMI has long been considered a flawed measure that can over-diagnose or underdiagnose obesity, which is currently defined as ...

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

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

The way obesity is currently diagnosed needs to be changed, according to an international group of experts.The Commission on Clinical Obesity says body mass ind ...

Many of them are on Medicaid and have become yo-yo dieters who, despite their best efforts at changing their eating habits and lifestyles, cannot seem to shed the pounds hurting their health. “They ...