A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial body mass index and hoping to better identify people who need treatment for ...

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

Under recommendations released Tuesday night, obesity would no longer be defined solely by BMI, a calculation ... expert at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.

Normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) to preserve livers prior to transplant was associated with significantly improved ...

Short-term fruit and vegetable juicing causes microbial shifts in the oral and gut microbiome, but these changes are mostly ...

The Body Mass Index (BMI) has long been a standard tool for assessing weight-related health risks. However, growing evidence suggests that this one-size-fits-all metric does not serve all ...

The healthy weight range is based on a measurement known as the body mass index (BMI). This can be determined ... All content within BBC Health is provided for general information only, and ...

The number does not capture a person's muscle mass; where on their body fat is stored; or how their race, ethnicity and ...

About 20% have obesity, which is defined as a BMI in the 95th ... medicine at Stanford University in California. "Being overweight is the new smoking when it comes to health threats." ...

Funded by biopharma leader Kent Hawryluk ’07 MBA, the endowment will support this unique program offering, which gathers ...

Northwestern University continues its ambitious initiative to grow ... At Northwestern, we are proud to provide meaningful, competitive, high-quality health care plans, retirement benefits, tuition ...