Obesity Won't Be Solely Defined by BMI Under New Plan for Diagnosis by Global Experts
New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health ...
End of the Line for BMI? Experts Propose New Obesity Definition
Obesity affects over 1 billion people globally, with 40 percent of U.S. adults classified as obese under the present ...
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Obesity needs a new definition beyond BMI, health experts argue
Doctors have primarily relied on body mass index, or BMI, to diagnose ... journalist based in Washington, DC. She holds a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience from the University of Virginia ...
New York Post3d
We’re measuring obesity wrong — experts pinpoint 3 signs you may fit the bill regardless of your BMI
BMI is a person’s weight in kilograms ... Cummings, a commissioner and professor of medicine at the University of Washington, told The Post that’s being studied. This graphic shows how ...
AllAfrica.com1d
Nigeria: Experts Call for a More Health-Focused Redefinition of Obesity
The researchers are advocating for a new approach that emphasises the impact of excess body fat on health, rather than relying solely on Body Mass Index (BMI).
The Straits Times2d
New obesity benchmark adds body fat, organ health to BMI
Currently, anyone with a BMI of ... training of healthcare workers, according to the Lancet commission. It applies to adults regardless of age, gender or ethnicity, said the University of Colorado ...
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Obesity Won't Be Solely Defined by BMI Under New Plan for Diagnosis by Global Experts
Obesity Won't Be Solely Defined by BMI Under New Plan for Diagnosis ... an obesity expert at the University of Washington and one of the 58 authors of the report published in The Lancet Diabetes ...
The Washington Post4d
Obesity won't be solely defined by BMI under new plan for diagnosis by global experts
Under recommendations released Tuesday night, obesity would no longer be defined solely by BMI, a calculation ... an obesity expert at the University of Washington and one of the 58 authors ...