BioWorld™ published by Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CLVT), a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, has released its ...

A group of experts from around the world are proposing an alternative way of defining clinical obesity, eschewing the ...

Body Mass Index, or BMI, has long been criticized as an unreliable method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts ...

Using body-mass index to tell who is overweight or obese is not reliable and can result in misdiagnosis, the Commission on ...

A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial body mass index and hoping to better identify people who need treatment for ...

An international committee of scientists has proposed changing the way obesity is defined and diagnosed. The proposal adds ...

The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology published its Commission on the definition and diagnostic criteria of clinical obesity.

Obesity affects over 1 billion people globally, with 40 percent of U.S. adults classified as obese under the present ...

For years, a debate has raged over how obesity is diagnosed. Currently, many countries define obesity as having a body mass index (BMI) over 30, but critics have long argued that other factors come ...

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 ...

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.

A cutting-edge molecular approach provides a detailed picture of the biological pathways associated with childhood obesity and metabolic dysfunction, and identifies environmental risk factors during ...