The recommendations also put forth two new diagnosis categories: clinical obesity and pre-obesity. The first describes people with evidence of health conditions caused by excess weight, such as heart ...

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

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

People with higher body mass indexes say they're relieved by experts' new guidance to downplay the use of BMI in diagnosing people with weight problems or obesity.

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But this measure, called body mass index, or BMI, lacks nuance and fails to tell ... said Robert Eckel, a University of Colorado Anschutz professor and one of more than 50 medical experts who ...

A major clinical trial, led by the University of Sheffield, has revealed survival rates for patients with operable bladder cancer are significantly improved by adding an immunotherapy drug to before ...

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