New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and take into account health ...
Indian doctors have revised obesity guidelines for the first time in 15 years, moving beyond the traditional BMI tool to ...
BMI has long been considered a flawed measure that can over-diagnose or underdiagnose obesity, which is currently defined as ...
The term overweight is no more a part of the India-specific obesity guidelines that were revised after nearly 15 years and ...
By coincidence (they started before GLP -1 drugs were approved for slimming), a group of 56 doctors have just answered that ...
It's the start of another year and the body mass index (BMI) is being criticised again . This time a Lancet-commissioned group of experts is ...
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.
BMI is an outdated measure of health, say experts – there’s a raft of new checks that could give a clue to your current ...
Huge numbers of the 17.6million Brits who have been told that they are overweight are in fact perfectly healthy, the ...
A new Lancet Commission - made up of more than 50 experts from around the world - says a 'radical overhaul' is needed in how ...
A team of Indian doctors, including from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, has in a new study publishe ...