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

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 ...

Communication problems increase exponentially. (When recently attempting to schedule a meeting, for example, a Northwestern University task force team discovered that there was no time or day of ...

Obesity is currently defined as a BMI of 30 or above in adults ... and professor of medicine and medical education at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, in an interview ...

BMI is a person’s weight in kilograms divided ... a professor of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a Northwestern Medicine physician. One way to change the ...

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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