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

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 ...

There may be a more effective way to define and diagnose obesity, according to a commission of scientists that proposed a ...

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

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

New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular body mass index (BMI) measure.

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Patients with obesity only at the beginning of the ... an associate professor of cardiology and preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a practicing ...

That’s both a necessary response to an ongoing problem and forward-thinking, says Robert Kushner, who specializes in obesity medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.