An initiative to improve care and standardize identification, assessment, referrals, and treatment for patients with HCM has been launched by the AHA.

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 ...

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

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 ...

Obesity is linked to many common diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease, fatty liver disease and knee ...

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

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

Using body-mass index to tell who is overweight or obese is not reliable and can result in misdiagnosis, the Commission on ...