One of the inadequacies of using body mass index (BMI) as a predictive factor is that “current BMI-based measures of obesity can both underestimate and overestimate” a persons ...

Perhaps the new approach could direct people with downstream consequences of obesity to receive needed medical care sooner. The proposed change in definition could also help reduce stigma around ...

Is obesity a disease? How could it be better defined? A commission of 56 global experts from 'The Lancet' magazine has set ...

CNN: How is the new definition proposed by this global commission different? Wen: This commission, composed of 58 experts worldwide, proposes that obesity be thought of differently from the ...

This new definition, published January 14 in the journal The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, could shift the paradigm of clinical care for the 890 million adults worldwide who are currently ...