More than a billion people are estimated to be living with obesity worldwide and prescription weight-loss drugs are in high ...

Under recommendations released Tuesday night, obesity would no longer be defined solely by BMI, a calculation of height and ...

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.

That is the conclusion of a report by the global Commission ... more and a weight-related health condition like diabetes or cardiovascular disease. Using the new definition, weight-loss drugs ...

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 ...

Instead of using the controversial body mass index, or BMI, to assess weight, an international group of scientists proposes ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

People with excess body fat can still be active and healthy, experts say Calling people obese is medically "flawed" - and the definition should be split into two, a report from global experts says.

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