The number does not capture a person's muscle mass; where on their body fat is stored; or how their race, ethnicity and ...

A commission proposed a new definition of obesity focused on how excess fat affects the body, rather than assessing body mass ...

According to a September 2024 data brief from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 40.3 percent of U.S.

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

One change is establishing a “pre-clinical” category, which could help with providing coverage for medications and surgical procedures that treat obesity. Currently, the BMI cutoff is 30 for ...

The global perception of obesity as a health crisis has long been tied to the body mass index (BMI), a metric that uses height and weight to estimate body fat. However, a recent report published ...

Body mass index (BMI) should not be the only measurement for obesity, with more in-depth medical assessment required, global experts in the Lancet Commission have said. People with obesity should ...

Experts are proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial body mass index (BMI ... “For a new classification system to be widely adopted ...

A group of global experts has proposed a new approach to defining and diagnosing obesity, reducing the reliance on the controversial body mass index ... that for the new classification system ...

How we define obesity needs to become more nuanced, a report has argued, with body mass index (BMI) as a measure alone being too simplistic. The report, by The Lancet Commission on Obesity and ...

A new report proposes redefining obesity, moving beyond BMI to include waist circumference ... she noted. “For a new classification system to be widely adopted, it would also need to be ...

By coincidence (they started before GLP -1 drugs were approved for slimming), a group of 56 doctors have just answered that ...