End of the Line for BMI? Experts Propose New Obesity Definition
Obesity affects over 1 billion people globally, with 40 percent of U.S. adults classified as obese under the present ...
Obesity won't be solely defined by BMI under new plan for diagnosis by global experts
New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and take into account health ...
Moving away from BMI, experts propose a new definition for obesity
New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health ...
Scientists Suggest New Way to Help Measure Obesity Instead of Just Using Traditional BMI Metric
A new report notes that the amount of belly fat a patient has is a more useful metric for determining obesity than ...
New Obesity Definition Challenges Current Use of B.M.I.
An international commission made the case for focusing on body fat quantity and the illnesses people experience.
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US Obesity 'Is at a Crisis Point'
co-founder of the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, calls out "the decades-long failure to tackle the growing overweight and obesity epidemic in the US ...
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Obesity won't be solely defined by BMI under new plan for diagnosis by global experts
an obesity expert at the University of Washington and one of the 58 authors of the report published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology journal. The report introduces two new diagnostic ...
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Obesity won’t be solely defined by BMI under new plan for diagnosis by global experts
an obesity expert at the University of Washington and one of the 58 authors of the report published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology journal. The report introduces two new diagnostic ...