New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular ...

What is pre-clinical obesity? A new report redefines obesity using broader criteria than body mass index (BMI), focusing on ...

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

There may be a more effective way to define and diagnose obesity, according to a commission of scientists that proposed a ...

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.

BMI has long been falling out of favor. When the American Medical Association urged downgrading BMI in 2023, it blamed its ...

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

The clinical definition for "obesity" is not one size fits all. Relying on body mass index (BMI) alone can lead to under-diagnosis of people who are ...

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 ...

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

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