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

The Global Commission on Clinical Obesity has put forward 18 criteria for diagnosing clinical obesity, moving away from the ...

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health ...

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 ...

An international committee of scientists has proposed changing the way obesity is defined and diagnosed. The proposal adds ...

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 ...

Clinical obesity defined as chronic illness resulting from effect of excess adiposity on organ and tissue function.

The Lancet urges a shift from BMI to better obesity metrics, emphasizing the need for accurate assessments to address rising ...