A larger body doesn’t necessarily mean you have ‘clinical obesity’, according to a proposed new definition of the disease.

The way obesity is diagnosed needs to become more sophisticated, an international commission has concluded.Using body-mass ...

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

More than a billion people are estimated to be living with obesity worldwide and prescription weight-loss drugs are in high ...

Obesity is typically assessed by measuring someone's body mass index, but now researchers are calling for a more nuanced ...

One part of parenting is deciding when their teenager poses or has a problem; another is dealing with the problem in a ...

New report by The Lancet released Wednesday has suggested adopting measures apart from body mass index (BMI) to determine ...

The revised definition, published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology 1 on 14 January, focuses on how excess body fat, a ...

Painful skin and trouble sleeping are among the problems reported when tapering cortisone cream for atopic eczema. This has ...

A group of Australian and international experts are calling for a major overhaul of obesity diagnosis, saying current methods ...

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