Under recommendations released Tuesday night, obesity would no longer be defined solely by BMI, a calculation ... expert at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
The way the world defines obesity has been in need of an overhaul, according to some experts, and it could be coming soon ...
“People with excess body fat do not always have a BMI that indicates they are living with obesity, meaning their health ...
The use of weight-loss jabs may be associated with wider health benefits including ... The observational study, led by Washington University clinical epidemiologist Dr Ziyad Al-Aly, analysed ...
Obesity affects over 1 billion people globally, with 40 percent of U.S. adults classified as obese under the present ...
Experts say clinical obesity is more than a high BMI and instead is a disease in which excess body fat harms tissues, organs or doing daily activities.
Wen is an emergency physician and adjunct associate professor at George Washington University. She previously was Baltimore’s health commissioner. CNN: What is BMI? What are the advantages and ...
New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health ...
Under recommendations released Tuesday night, obesity would no longer be defined solely by BMI, a calculation ... expert at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.