It's the start of another year and the body mass index (BMI) is being criticized again. This time a Lancet-commissioned group ...

Gestational diabetes led to an increased risk for asthma exacerbations during pregnancy among a cohort of women with ...

The recommendations also put forth two new diagnosis categories: clinical obesity and pre-obesity. The first describes people with evidence of health conditions caused by excess weight, such as heart ...

If you’re short on time, Stoner recommends the three-minute step test as another alternative that offers a score of aerobic ...

A report by The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission calls for a shift in obesity diagnosis, proposing a more ...

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 is out! Dr. Mike Cirigliano breaks down the new concept of how to identify obesity. Tiger Woods handed damning verdict on ...

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 ...

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