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Obesity won’t be solely defined by BMI under new proposal
A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial ...
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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Hello, Trump. Bye-Bye, Biden.
With just days to go before the official launch of a new administration, the GOP-led Congress is putting together plans on how to enact incoming President Donald Trump’s agenda, with a particular ...
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Obesity won’t be solely defined by BMI under new plan
A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial ...
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Experts Call for Redefining Obesity Beyond BMI
A new report published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology challenges the conventional reliance on Body Mass Index (BMI) ...
Moving away from BMI, experts propose a new definition for obesity
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 ...
Experts row back on ‘flawed’ BMI as millions wrongly diagnosed with obesity
Experts row back on ‘flawed’ BMI as new definition of obese proposed - Roughly 20% of people who used to be classified as ...
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Obesity needs a new definition beyond BMI, health experts argue
Experts say clinical obesity is more than a high BMI and instead is a disease in which excess body fat harms tissues, organs or doing daily activities.