Obesity affects over 1 billion people globally, with 40 percent of U.S. adults classified as obese under the present ...

A group of experts from around the world are proposing an alternative way of defining clinical obesity, eschewing the ...

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

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 ...

Obesity, recognized as a complex and growing health issue, is associated with an increased risk of various cancers. A ...

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

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

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.

A new approach to diagnosing obesity aims to reduce reliance on BMI, incorporating waist circumference and health evidence ...