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

A report published last week in “The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology” strives to redefine obesity. An international group convened to examine the longstanding concept and are recommending better ...

An international team of doctors proposed a new way to define obesity that's not based solely on BMI. Here's what they ...

Waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio show stronger links to colorectal cancer (CRC) than body mass index (BMI), a new ...

GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic have swept the world as effective therapies for far more than their original target of diabetes.

Weight-loss medicines such as Ozempic might raise a person’s likelihood of developing conditions including arthritis.

BMI has been used as the standard method of diagnosing obesity for decades the world over, but the Lancet commission urges doctors to “move away from BMI alone”. Doctors are being told to diagnose ...

A global Commission, published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology and endorsed by 75 medical organisations around the world, presents a novel, nuanced approach to diagnose obesity, based on other ...

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So the commission proposes to change the definition of obesity from simply being relatively ... more than 75 medical organizations around the world, but it's not clear how widely or quickly ...