A new report noted that body mass index does not provide a nuanced enough assessment of health as it relates to weight ...

There may be a more effective way to define and diagnose obesity, according to a commission of scientists that proposed a major change regarding the metabolic disease. Body mass index (BMI), a ...

The current BMI-based measure of obesity can both overestimate and underestimate how much body fat a person has, explains Dr. Robert Kushner, an endocrinologist at Northwestern University who is part ...

New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular ...

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 ...

Clinical obesity is a chronic disease affecting ... a professor of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a Northwestern Medicine physician. One way to change the ...

What is pre-clinical obesity? A new report redefines obesity using broader criteria than body mass index (BMI), focusing on ...