An international and widely supported group of experts is pushing doctors to avoid the exclusive use of BMI to decide whether ...

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

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

BMI has long been considered a flawed measure that can over-diagnose or underdiagnose obesity, which is currently defined as ...

Obesity is an important health issue for patients with chronic kidney disease, speeding its progression, contributing to ...

Averaging up to 20% of weight loss, adults taking Tirzepatide had at least 25 fewer breathing interruptions each hour as they ...

Huge numbers of the 17.6million Brits who have been told that they are overweight are in fact perfectly healthy, the ...

liver or kidney disease or chronic severe knee or hip pain. These people would be eligible for treatments, including diet and exercise interventions and obesity medications. People with pre ...

emphasizing the fact that obesity is a severe and disabling disease by itself, even without or before the occurrence of obesity-related complications,” he said. However, he takes issue with the ...

The new system would see people categorised as having either clinical obesity, if their weight is affecting their organ ...