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 guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular body mass index (BMI ... education at Northwestern University's Feinberg ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
An international committee of scientists has proposed a change to the way obesity is defined and diagnosed. The goal is to offer a more nuanced and objective way to assess body composition, by ...