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

A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial ...

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

As weight-loss drugs like Ozempic become normalized solutions to over-eating habits, researchers at Pennington Biomedical ...

Pre-clinical obesity is a “state of excess adiposity” where the person has a variable level of health risk, but no ongoing illness. A great first step to self-care is more exercise.

People are being "overdiagnosed" with obesity because the body mass index (BMI) is not "nuanced" enough, leading medics have warned. A commission of more than 50 international experts said solely ...

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Commenting on the commission, Dr Kath McCullough, special adviser on obesity at the Royal College of Physicians, said: “For too long, we’ve relied on BMI as a simple measure of obesity, which has ...

People are being “overdiagnosed” with obesity, leading medics have warned as they called for a “reframing” of the way the condition is diagnosed. Academics have suggested that a body mass index (BMI) ...