The longtime reliance on BMI means that obesity is likely overdiagnosed, members of the Commission said. View on euronews ...
A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial ...
A recent study revealed that aerobic fitness is more important than BMI when it comes to longevity. Experts explain why ...
A new report says only using BMI to determine if a patient has obesity leads to under-diagnosing people who are ill and ...
It's the start of another year and the body mass index (BMI) is being criticized again. This time a Lancet-commissioned group ...
New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health ...
A report by The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission calls for a shift in obesity diagnosis, proposing a more ...
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 ...
Body Mass Index, or BMI, has long been criticized as an unreliable method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts ...
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 ...