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How we diagnose and define obesity is set to change – here’s why, and what it means for treatmentA larger body doesn’t necessarily mean you have ‘clinical obesity’, according to a proposed new definition of the disease.
Doctors worldwide should diagnose obesity differently, relying on broader criteria and taking into account when the condition ...
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Obesity in the 21st century goes beyond the scale weight and BMI: "We must measure the presence of adipose tissue that damages organs"A document endorsed by more than 56 experts worldwide, published in 'The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology', proposes a change ...
A global group of experts has suggested a new approach to diagnosing and treating obesity that does not rely solely on the ...
BMI has long been falling out of favor. When the American Medical Association urged downgrading BMI in 2023, it blamed its ...
By coincidence (they started before GLP -1 drugs were approved for slimming), a group of 56 doctors have just answered that ...
Obesity, long determined by the flawed metric of BMI, should be diagnosed based on other measurements, experts argue.
Over one billion people in the world are estimated to have obesity. Some experts believe its treatment and diagnosis need a ...
LIVER cancer has become the UK’s fastest rising cause of cancer death with obesity, smoking and boozing behind higher cases, ...
The new definition proposed by the Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission, a group of 58 leading experts from various ...
A global commission of experts has called for a radical shift in how obesity is diagnosed, with less reliance on body mass index (BMI) to define disease. The commission, published in Lancet Diabetes ...
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